Comments on: Updating Twitter via iChat or AIM status message

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:09:18 +0000

Those who are getting ‘propertyList is NULL’ errors…you can run this at the command-line to debug your XML errors:

perl -MXML::Parser -e ‘$p = new XML::Parser(Style=>”Debug”); $p->parsefile(“your_file.plist”);’

It’ll spit out any errors the parser finds.

By: My Weblog

My Weblog — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 14:35:58 +0000

[...] Updating Twitter via iChat or AIM status message [...]

By: TikiRobot!, Mai Tais and Blinky Lights, Ahoy! » Update Twitter via iChat status message, part II

Tue, 01 May 2007 07:10:06 +0000

[...] while back I posted a perl script that would update your Twitter status whenever you changed your iChat status message. [...]

By: rajbot

rajbot — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 08:35:50 +0000

OK, I made a Cocoa version that is much easier to use. You can get it here

By: ChrisW

ChrisW — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 22:12:26 +0000

Thanks for posting something like this. Unfortunately, I can’t get it to work. I’m getting something like this in the Terminal:

chrischris:~ chris$ launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/net.twitter.status.plist
launchctl: propertyList is NULL
launchctl: no plist was returned for: /Users/chris/Library/LaunchAgents/net.twitter.status.plist
launchctl: no plist was returned for: /Users/chris/Library/LaunchAgents/net.twitter.status.plist
nothing found to load

Don’t know what I’m doing wrong. Please help!

By: rajbot

rajbot — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 20:38:44 +0000

Sure.. you will have to change the script a bit, but it’s not too hard.

If you don’t want to mess with it yourself, I might be able to do it in a few days when I get some time…

By: Seth

Seth — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 19:15:41 +0000

I want this to work the other way around… when I change my Twitter info, I want *that* to become my iChat status message.

Can that be done?

By: dydimustk

dydimustk — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 19:38:19 +0000

Sorry that I didn’t get back to you till now. I did get it to work with a little messing around in launchd. But I wanted to mention, that I want to try and get this to work in reverse now as well. So that iChat will grab its status from twitter. If I get it working, I’ll post it here.

By: rajbot

rajbot — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 15:41:44 +0000

dydimustk, does status.pl work for you if you run it from the command line? Stupid launchd…

By: dydimustk

dydimustk — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 07:57:11 +0000

This looks awesome and I want to give it a try, but permissions are flaked. I made status.pl 777. but I still get this in the console:

Oct 11 02:43:14 adamnan launchd[2485]: net.tikirobot.status: execvp(“/Users/Dydimustk/status.pl”, …): Permission denied

Oct 11 02:43:14 adamnan launchd[2482]: net.tikirobot.status: execve(): Permission denied