Comments on: Twitter Hacks: Command Line + Keeping Time + Twitter Offline!

By: Debra Hamel

Debra Hamel — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 20:33:19 +0000

Actually, I just realized that I can run two or more different copies of the same application simultaneously. That’s what I’m going to do for now, using TwitterPost. (I like Twitterific but it’s flawed, I’m afraid.)

By: Chrispian

Chrispian — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 19:27:23 +0000

I see. Then using multiple clients, which you can install on windows or a mac should work fine. I use Twitteroo and TwitBox, though there are more. Ive started a list (I’ll be adding to it) http://www.twitterhacks.com/twitter-clients/

But you can run two different clients, 1 for each account. I also run twitter on firefox for one account and a twitter client for my main account.

By: Debra Hamel

Debra Hamel — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 18:32:14 +0000

I’m afraid this is all over my head. I don’t know anything about PHP and can’t do it on TypePad anyway, I don’t think.

By: chrispian

chrispian — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 14:45:12 +0000

Debra, one way would be to setup a command line or php tool that lets you specify which user to use. For example, with the code example above you could make multiple copies of the command line tool, one for each account and each tool would have the user/pass for each account. Instead of naming the program “twitter” when yous ave it you could do like twitterchrispian and twitter451press (my two twitter accounts, for example). They’d be the same other than user:pass. So then when I sent a message for 451 press I’d just change the command from twitter to twitter451press and it would use that script.

I’ve seen an example of a php script that interfaces with curl to send tweets. I’d imagine you could set it up to use multiple accounts too.

If you are on windows, there are also like 5-6 twitter clients and you could run one of each for each account.

By: Debra Hamel

Debra Hamel — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 14:15:34 +0000

But how have you dealt with the issue of logging into separate accounts? I have two accounts now, and so far I’ve managed it by using TwitterPost for my main account and the FireFox TweetBar for my secondary account.