Announcing the next Phnom Penh Tweetup

Announcing the next Phnom Penh Tweetup during the next Connect@coLAB event. If you have a Twitter account, you can contact us with hashtag #PhnomPenhtweetup in your message. You can also follow us using this twitter search page (#PPtweetup).

Don't worry if you don't tweet. Come and meet some great people at Phnom Penh Tweetup. :)

What is a Tweetup?

A tweetup is an organized, in-person gathering of people on Twitter. Normally we connect with our friends online after we have met them. At a tweetup you meet the people you might only otherwise know virtually. Like finally putting a name to a face, a tweetup is a great opportunity to really connect with the people who you follow on twitter.

When is it?

Thursday December 18, 2014
6pm till 9pm

Where is it?

CoLAB
#263 Street 163 Toul Tom Pong Phnom Penh
Cambodia
+855 (0) 16 777 631 – Samda

coLAB is located on street 163 near the corner of street 454. We are on the 1st floor above 7 Mart Convenience Store.

Twitter In Action

Tweeting is not a waste of your time. Few hours ago I started promoting the upcoming web accessibility workshop by posting it to twitter. And the workshop trainers Rahul and Srinivasu started connecting online via twitter. It is good example of twitter social networking in action.

Tweeter Conversation

• playingwithsid(me):National Workshop on Web #accessibility in Trivandrum http://2tu.us/t9m
• gonsalves_r: I'll be here, as a trainer! RT @playingwithsid: National Workshop on Web #accessibility in Trivandrum http://2tu.us/t9m
• sriniworld: Me too @gonsalves_r: I'll be here, as a trainer! RT @playingwithsid: National Workshop on Web #accessibility in Trivandrum http://2tu.us/t9m

This is a follow up of Sarah's post Twitter In Action

send a twitter messages from command line with bti

bti allows you to send twitter messages right from the command line. It works with both twitter.com and identi.ca. To use this program install the Ubuntu package with the same name (sudo apt-get install bti).

I was able to post a tweet message using bti within few minutes. The configuration is easy and straight forward. Have look at the bti example config file to get started quickly (/usr/share/doc/bti/examples/bti.example). The url shorting feature (with --shrink-urls option) however didn't work as intended though. Anyway its wonderful to be able to tweet from the command line, bti does have some pretty interesting features.
And don't forget to follow my tweets @playingwithsid.

About Bti micro-blogging command line tool

bti provides an easy way to send tweet messages direct from the command line or any script. It reads the message on standard input and uses the account and password settings either from the command line options, or from a config file, to send the message out.
It's primary focus is to allow you to log everything that you type into a bash shell, in a crazy, "this is what I´m doing right now!" type of way, letting the world follow along with you constant moving between directories and refreshing your email queue to see if there´s anything interesting going on.