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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. --- **Source:** [https://my.remarkbox.com/55ed5dda-4208-11e9-9d31-040140774501](https://my.remarkbox.com/55ed5dda-4208-11e9-9d31-040140774501) **Snapshot:** 2026-05-07T01:58:57Z **Generator:** Remarkbox `763cacb`