tircd is an ircd proxy for talking to the Twitter API. It should work with any standard IRC client. After running the Perl script, you authenticate to the IRC server using your Twitter username as your /nick. Join the room #twitter and the /topic will be set to your last update. Any message you type will update Twitter and the room’s topic. All of the people you are following show up in the room as users and post messages as they tweet. If you private message one of them, it will become a direct message on Twitter. Other commands work too: /whois to get a person’s bio, /invite to start following, and /kick to unfollow. The project is brand new and will be added new features in the future like Search API support. Follow @tircd for updates.
“Bitches don’t know bout my soldering”
freakin’ awesome xD
“Bitches don’t know bout my soldering” i loled. but srsly this looks sweet.
For those that want to use a IRC server that they already have, try this.
http://code.google.com/p/irctotwit/
Weird how this all is coming to a full circle.
IRC has already existed forever. Twitter seems to be just a delayed version of IRC and now this.
I much prefer to have my gums scraped with a butterknife than hear about the most recent Twittering Tech.
what’s up with all the twitter junk? it’s obnoxious.
They’re confusing lifehacker and hackaday, that’s what :)
Twitter news should be on blogs for hipster web2.0 adapters with egoes too big for their physical shells. :X
second the butter knife scraping
“i much prefer to have my gums scraped with a butterknife than hear about the most recent twittering tech.”
truth
IRC… one network to rule them all. Twitter, i don’t know, i am trying to not be interested but it’s shoved in my face everywhere.
could you lend me that bloody butterknife when you’re finished with it?
I’ll take seppuku with a butterknife over twitter, even
anyone do good hacks in a vanagon?????
I used twitter in my presidential campaign!
Obama’s President now biatches
Oh God. The _other_ tw* word I don’t like to hear.
@dravin:
Check out John Dolsen’s site. He’s got solar power, satellite TV, and a minibike to use as a dinghy:
http://home.earthlink.net/~johndolsen/index.html
Creating a bridge between IRC and Twitter looked interesting and, even though my computing skills are limited I thought I’d give it a go. Now I’m using Vista (I know, I know let’s just avoid that subject) and so installed ActivePerl. Tried the example.pl and that worked ok.
Then I downloaded tircd and unzipped into /eg (not sure if it should go there or not). Tried running tircd.pl – but it spat back this at me:
C:\Perl\eg>tircd.pl
Can’t locate JSON/Any.pm in @INC (@INC contains: C:/Perl/site/lib C:/Perl/lib .)
at C:\Perl\eg\tircd.pl line 6.
BEGIN failed–compilation aborted at C:\Perl\eg\tircd.pl line 6.
Can you show me the path to enlightenment oh gods of geekdom?
Ian
ian, you probably just have to run cpan and then install JSON::Any and whatever other dependencies it is assuming exist on the system.
Thanks a lot.
emege saygi tesekkürler
i installed activeperl, for winxp.
i got tircd from svn.
cpan did not work for me; i did this instead:
ppm install POE
ppm install POE-Filter-IRCD
ppm install Net-Twitter-Lite
it depends on tircd whether it’s Net-Twitter or Net-Twitter-Lite, actually.
cheers.
Please excuse my ignorance but Im in need of help. Im not sure this is what I need, I have ZERO skills in the program department. I run a irc room for my company and we have a single twitter account to bring in breaking news feeds. Id like a simple bot that would post in the irc any new feeds coming in from those that we are following. Im completely lost as to what I need to do or get. Any help would be great. I know this is a few years old just hoping something may exist that would work for our needs. Thanks