Use iCal to tweet automatically

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Recently, the question came up of how to automatically “tweet” a birthday message to a friend or loved one on their special day. After thinking on this question for some time I finally came to a solution. As it turns out, intrepid TUAW blogger Dave Caolo wrote a Mac 101 article all about attaching AppleScripts to iCal events. Additionally, Brad Linder over at Download Squad put together a nice little tutorial for posting to Twitter via the command line.

It wasn’t obvious at first, but these two articles together formed a dynamic duo of birthday tweeting proportions. If, dear reader, you are interested in setting up a system for sending out some birthday tweets then follow along as we travel the mysterious world of iCal events and command line tweeting. Read on for a somewhat technical tutorial on how to set up some pre-scheduled tweeting goodness. (If you’re looking for a service to take care of all this for you, here you go.)

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TUAWUse iCal to tweet automatically originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, 17 Jul 2009 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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