Twitter is hype. While the service certainly has its good uses, for example to get direct realtime information on events happening anywhere in the world, it is mostly an impracticable service for the individual. Well, it does work if the follower and followed count does not go beyond a few dozens but anything beyond that is information overflow. Who can – and wants to – keep up with status updates of thousands of users?
TweetMyPC turns Twitter into something else; A platform to send commands to a computer system. It provides the means to shutdown, restart or logoff PCs remotely. A client – the TweetMyPC software – has to be installed and configured on the remote computer system. This essentially means to add a Twitter username and password in the software which has to run in the background. An Internet connection is obviously needed as well as this is how the status updates are send from Twitter to the local computer system.
The user can then initiate the shutdown, restart of logoff by updating the status at Twitter. Changing the Twitter status to Logoff would for instance send the logoff command remotely to the computer system where it would then be initiated. It is advised to create a new Twitter account for this so that no one but the owner of the computer system can send the commands using Twitter.
TweetMyPC checks for status updates every minute and runs most of the time in the Windows system tray.
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wow…. it revolution for pc shutdown/restart. just tweet via phone, the pc now shutdown self
this app scan for message every minute – u might run out of Twitter API… just my 2 cents
Hi Nilesh
This is Shoban, The developer of TweetMyPC. Twitter will accept a maximum of 100 requests per hour. One per minute will make it only 60 ;-)
I think the app hold real potential in terms that it can further be advanced to run other Programs and operations like Anti-Virus Scan, Download Files, Syncing Files etc.
You should’ve included the link, Martin. Mkay?
http://tweetmypc.codeplex.com/
thats great that you are talking about the twitter api,a good example of searching with the twitter api is on twiogle.com because you can search on twitter and google at the same time.