Yeah, I should make that more obvious.

The email and password fields are used by some other scripts, including the Twitter Ruby Gem (http://twitter.rubyforge.org/), which I'm working on porting this plugin to use.

What other twitter features would be useful in this plugin?

Well i missed the RSS thing as well. I put my ID in and set my status to '%_Twitter' but my status simply reads 'adium'

Any takers?

That looks like a bug - I'll look into it and release a fix ASAP

Unfortunately, the API doesn't currently provide access to a timeline for the logged-in user. I'm asking some people if that could change, however, and will keep everyone updated.

I've just uploaded version 1.0, which supports protected updates.

Michael - does your .twitter file have your username, email, and password in it? Please adjust it to contain all three.

This is the fix! Thanks so much -- I was getting very frustrated!

You don't. That's a totally different idea. This is pulling down from twitter to adium status. Or whatever in adium.

P.S. You could use Twitterrific to set adium, skype, iChat, and twitter all at once if you so desire; that's what I do.

Hmm...

Oh well, seems like the post got truncated.

Simple change all instances of

open(timefile,"w").write(Time.now.to_s)

to

open(timefile,"w").write(Time.now.strftime("%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y"))

and replace the lines

timefile = "/tmp/TwitterAdium.time"
twitterfile = "/tmp/TwitterAdium.twitter"

with
timefile = "/tmp/.#{ENV["LOGNAME"]}_TwitterAdium.time"
twitterfile = "/tmp/.#{ENV["LOGNAME"]}_TwitterAdium.twitter"

Works great now :)

open the file in your user directory:
Library/Application Support/Adium 2.0/Scripts/Twitter.AdiumScripts/Contents/Resources/twitter.rb

Search for 60, change that to however many seconds between requests you want.

Adam -

I haven't updated this plugin to work with the new Applescript setup yet. Will do that this AM and post a new version.

I have the same exact problem. Twitteradium is also the only client I'm using.

same here. sux. this used to work.

My friend and I just started using TwitterAdium today and were having this problem. After a bit of debugging we determined that TwitterAdium was saving a new timestamp to its temp file every 30 seconds instead of every 120. This of course put it over the 70 requests/minute allowed by Twitter, so it was locking us out of the updates. We think the problem is related to how ruby was parsing the date saved in the temp file. We were able to solve it by replacing this block in ~/Library/Application Support/Adium 2.0/Scripts/Twitter.AdiumScripts/Contents/Resources/twitter.rb:

begin
last = Time.parse(open(timefile).read).to_i
last_twitter = open(twitterfile).read.to_s
rescue
last = Time.now.to_i
open(timefile,"w").write(Time.now.strftime("%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y"))
last_twitter = ''
end

if (Time.now.to_i - last.to_i) > 120 || last_twitter == ''
open(timefile,"w").write(Time.now.to_s)
else
puts last_twitter
exit(0)
end

with this block:

begin
last = open(timefile).read.to_i
last_twitter = open(twitterfile).read.to_s
rescue
last = Time.now.to_i
open(timefile,"w").write(Time.now.to_i)
last_twitter = ''
end

if (Time.now.to_i - last.to_i) > 120 || last_twitter == ''
open(timefile,"w").write(Time.now.to_i)
else
puts last_twitter
exit(0)
end

This stores everything as a unix integer timestamp, so there's no question of how it's being parsed. Updates are now properly occurring once every two minutes and TwitterAdium is working correctly.

I actually just patched this myself and it seems to work.

using the finder click Go than Go To Folder, then type ~/Library/Application Support/Scripts
right click on Twitter.AdiumScripts and hit Show Package Contents, then navigate to Contents/Resources and edit the twitter.rb file with a text editor.

Replace the following:

open(twitterfile,"w").write(twitter)
puts twitter

with:

if twitter.index('@') == 0
else
open(twitterfile,"w").write(twitter)
puts twitter
end

Lemme know if it works for you.

oh, and don't forget to change this line:
if (Time.now.to_i - last.to_i) > 120 || last_twitter == ''
to this:
if (Time.now.to_i - last.to_i) > interval || last_twitter == ''

also, that interval: 500 was a typo... i did the math right in real life.
;-)

Check my patch on http://www.adiumxtras.com/index.php?a...3484#c20195 and see if it works

try out my patch http://www.adiumxtras.com/index.php?a...3484#c20195 and see if it works

I just created my own .twitter file in my home directory with the followng:

username:
email:
password:

Worked fine after that.

Yes, I'm replying to myself because I like to help people once I've solved my problem. Sorry, was having some issues because I'm running Nambu and this script at the same time. Twitter has an API refresh cap of 70 refreshes an hour, and I was running Nambu with dynamic refreshes. With that, AND this script updating every 2 minutes, it was overloading Twitter and I was getting locked out towards last third of every hour. There are several ways to solve this problem - here is what I did:

I didn't want to change my Nambu refresh rate, because that results in crappy updates for all my followed tweets. So I cracked open the twitter.rb file inside the Twitter.AdiumScripts package (right-click, and view package contents.) Around line 56 or so there's an "if" condition that controls the timer ("if (Time.now.to_i - last.to_i) > 120 || last_twitter == ''") The number 120 is the number of seconds between refreshes (correct me if I'm wrong). Change this number to the desired refresh rate. I changed mine to 900, to refresh on the quarter-hour. This means only 4 of my 70 hourly refreshes are used up, freeing 66 up for Nambu. Hope this helps someone - I know all you scripters are rolling your eyes at the obviousness of this info, but there are plenty out there with little or no scripting knowledge that may gain something from this. Cheers!

In addition, the script seems to work without first logging into twitter. Comment out the line containing req.basic_auth config["username"], config["password"] and the script will still work without using up your precious API requests.

Anyone????? Frustrated that it just stopped working and only displays an old twitter message.

Thanks for the update in snow leopard ... This only seems to pull the first time, it doesn't grab any of my updates on twitter. Is there something I need to tweak?