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this looks awesome - finally brings Day One to the forefront of my
journaling! does it work with protected twitter feeds, or would I have
to open my feed up (or modify slogger to authenticate)?

## Brett — [Aug 05, 2012 04:37 am](https://my.remarkbox.com/55ed5dd7-4208-11e9-9d31-040140774501/social-logging-by-any-other-name-would-have-a-better-name-brettterpstra-com#55ed5dda-4208-11e9-9d31-040140774501)

Current Twitter functionality uses a public feed for tweets and
favorites. For this incarnation I wanted to avoid needing to deal with a
bunch of constantly-shifting auth schemes and make something that just
worked.

You could modify to use of the command-line Twitter tools that would be
able to provide a json or XML feed for a protected account.

If I develop this beyond a script app, I\'ll add support for auth and a
preference pane. And make it a polling background app in the menubar.
Lots of ideas, but for now, Slogger. Cheap and easy.

### Neil — [Aug 05, 2012 04:55 am](https://my.remarkbox.com/55ed5dd7-4208-11e9-9d31-040140774501/social-logging-by-any-other-name-would-have-a-better-name-brettterpstra-com#55ed5ddb-4208-11e9-9d31-040140774501)

I totally dig where you\'re coming from. I have a day job, too :) I have
done some minimal twitter work in python, but never ruby, so I\'m
hacking for sure. thanks again!

### Neil — [Aug 05, 2012 05:03 am](https://my.remarkbox.com/55ed5dd7-4208-11e9-9d31-040140774501/social-logging-by-any-other-name-would-have-a-better-name-brettterpstra-com#55ed5ddc-4208-11e9-9d31-040140774501)

i totally know where you\'re coming from - i have a day job, too (and
kids ) :). however, i was thinking of a really bad hack to modify it
just to work with my one and only twitter username, per
[https://dev.twitter.com/doc\...](https://dev.twitter.com/docs/auth/oauth/single-user-with-examples#ruby "https://dev.twitter.com/docs/auth/oauth/single-user-with-examples#ruby"){rel="nofollow"
target="_blank"} - we\'ll see if i actually get time to work on it, but
it seems like something fun to learn. thx again for your help!

### Robert — [Aug 07, 2012 11:18 pm](https://my.remarkbox.com/55ed5dd7-4208-11e9-9d31-040140774501/social-logging-by-any-other-name-would-have-a-better-name-brettterpstra-com#55ed5e0f-4208-11e9-9d31-040140774501)

As an alternative, you could use IFTTT to log your tweets to a dropbox
text file and pick that up by a folder action applescript or Hazel.


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