Lacking Credibility

A while ago after much discussion of Twitter by Leo Laporte and Merlin Mann on MacBreak Weekly I decided to sign up. I like it, I can’t explain why, I just do. It satisfies my urge to talk to noone in particular.Shortly after discovering Twitter I immediately went looking for the best way to post to Twitter. Where I found the Tweet = Twitter + Quicksilver which is a great little script, but it never told me when it was successful. (and during twitters recent downtime I Tweet’d several times.)So in the spirit of open source I decided to improve it by adding Growl support. So without further ado I present to you Tweet+Growl

tell application "GrowlHelperApp"	set the allNotificationsList to {"Success Notification", "Failure Notification"}	set the enabledNotificationsList to {"Success Notification", "Failure Notification"}	register as application ¬		"Tweet" all notifications allNotificationsList ¬		default notifications enabledNotificationsListend tellusing terms from application "Quicksilver"	on process text tweet		tell application "Keychain Scripting"			set twitter_key to first Internet key of current keychain whose server is "twitter.com"			set twitter_login to quoted form of (account of twitter_key & ":" & password of twitter_key)		end tell		set twitter_status to quoted form of ("status=" & tweet)		set results to do shell script "curl --user " & twitter_login & "-D - --data-binary " & twitter_status & " http://twitter.com/statuses/update.json"		set code to word 3 of results		if code = "200" then			tell application "GrowlHelperApp"				notify with name ¬					"Success Notification" title ¬					"Tweet Success" description ¬					"Successfully twittered \"" & tweet & ¬					"\"" application name "Tweet"			end tell		else			tell application "GrowlHelperApp"				notify with name ¬					"Failure Notification" title ¬					"Tweet Failure:" & code description ¬					"Failed to twitter \"" & tweet & ¬					"\"" application name "Tweet"			end tell		end if		return nothing	end process textend using terms from

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