[Request] Scheduling tweets — or is it too much for single-threaded emacs?

[akater]

Separate buffer for scheduled tweets, schedule is (re-)submitted on save. Or maybe I want too much from a single-threaded program?

[bmp]

@akater I'd love this too, I'm using a third party service (does not integrate with twittering-mode) called Buffer. I guess it should be possible to do this (See: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Asynchronous-Processes.html),

1. Store tweet timing in a config file.
2. Store buffered tweets in file (with the first comma separated value being status of whether tweeted or not)
3. Trigger a bash script to run (on launch of twittering-mode or Emacs) that posts tweets based on timing and the status value in the line
4. Bash script terminates if emacs is not running

I am not sure if this is an elegant or useful method though.

[jkitchin]

This seems to work:

(run-at-time
 "6:27pm" nil
 (lambda ()
   (twittering-call-api 'update-status '((status . "Scheduled at 6:27pm")))))

[akater]

I'm unlikely to check this as Twitter had locked my account it in a manner that does not encourage doing anything about it but it's probably fine. Thank you!