[twitter-dev] Re: On the demise of basic authentication.

2010-09-05 Thread mikesouthern
is indeed my Uncle. Thanks again On Sep 4, 11:40 pm, Marc Mims marc.m...@gmail.com wrote: * mikesouthern gb1...@cox.net [100904 19:56]: I'm not a developer. I just use perl scripts to automate my twitter feeds. For perl devs, the move to OAuth is really quite easy, especially for automated

[twitter-dev] Re: On the demise of basic authentication.

2010-09-04 Thread mikesouthern
I'm finding it fairly hard to laugh and relax, to be honest. I'm not a developer. I just use perl scripts to automate my twitter feeds. Receiving a notice telling me that the authentication process had permanently changed, and receiving it 2 days AFTER the change had been deployed, was not

[twitter-dev] Re: About OAuth

2010-09-04 Thread mikesouthern
But ... but ... I'm trying to do a similar kind of thing from a perl command line. I looked at this on github before, and where it says: // Register an application at http://dev.twitter.com/apps and from your new apps page get my access token. There is no application for me to go to in order to

[twitter-dev] cron job perl twitter tweeter

2010-09-04 Thread mikesouthern
Good evening :) I had a really simple perl net::twitter script that ran as a cron job off my laptop. All it did was, for each scheduled run, read a single line of information from a txt file, then tweet the line to any one of three twitter accounts. As I know enough perl to be dangerous, but not