stéfan sinclair :: scribblings & musings

I’ve finally taken the plunge into Twitter. I have to confess that I do so a more out of academic curiosity than real interest, but I have a sneaking suspicion that I’ll enjoy it, at least for a while. I’m not sure I’ll ever get into the groove of divulging details of my personal life, but I think it might be an interesting medium for exchanging interesting nuggets about research and teaching activities. My first instinct was certainly to look up colleagues whose work interests me, rather than looking up friends and family.

Soon after creating my account I found a very simple Quicksilver ActionScript for posting tweets. I also found an updated script for Growl notifications, but what I really wanted was to be warned when tweets were too long (over 140 characters). After trying a few variants with more or less success, I settled on this script (though I made the failed Growl message a bit more noticeable).