If you’re anything like me, you’ve subscribed to all of the recent social media trends. Starting with MySpace, evolving to Facebook and throwing a little Twitter in there somewhere along the way with a sprinkle of Buzz at the end and a forgotten dabble of Orkut and hi5 to keep your palette tasteful along the years. Even more is you, like me, have probably joined each of your favorites together with a smidgen of application glue so you only have to update one network before it propagates out to piss off the rest of the network nodes you now call friends. Sleepless nights patrolling the internet, looking for something witty, interesting or off-your-rocker stupid. Like a predator searching for his next meal in the desolate brush of an African terrain, you must show all your social friends just how cool you are in 140 characters or less. Well NO MORE, my friends .. no more.
Intelligent Updates
A long time ago, really, I released one of the most revolutionary software innovations since the invent of the home PC. An eency weency Perl module, Net::Twitter::RandomUpdate. The gist of it is simply this: give it some witty remarks to make and a good random interval to make them and let ‘er rip. Every so often it will pretend to be you with … whatever you want it to say.
Set It Up Already
The setup of this thing is pretty simple:
1. Download and Install
2. Configure
$rand->regularity(.5);
$rand->password(‘pass’);
$rand->username(‘user’);
$rand->tweet();
3. Schedule it
You’re Social Without the Social!
That’s it. Now, once a week at noon, there is a 50% chance you will tell all your tweeps and fb’rs whuddup! I’d be willing to bet now that you’re being anti-social with a tool that is fully intended to be anti-social with an old social group of yours, your life will finally take a direction for the better. And for that, you’re welcome.
Tags: code, humor, perl, Programming, Social