Finally thought of a use for my twitter script!

Yes, it took some time, but as I was sat in Wetherspoon's last night, I realised something else I could hook in to my twitter script.

We have a budget system that lives on the web server - we visit a web site, add purchases or income, and at the end of the month we should be able to work out how much we've saved (or not). Having bought my dinner, I was reading Facebook on the phone, when I thought it'd be useful if I could update the budget system from my mobile.

Voila! I could text to twitter with a certain hash tag and my script could handle it! Brilliant!

Admittedly in this case it's not perfect - I can only add basic information - but now the budget system will display a "temporary purchase" and ask you to fill in the fine detail the next time you visit the site. So, any time I spend money, I can text the details before I forget, and finish it off later on.

I then thought about another system I always wanted to start again - I used to keep closer track of my mileage and petrol costs, and thus miles per gallon. It's tricky to remember to jot down the mileage every time - so maybe if I could update by text, it'd help? Well, I've set up a system to record the information now, so I'll have to wait and see if I actually use it.

Finally - for general reminders - I set up the tags e[mail], r[eminder] and n[ote] to email me the tweet, for perusal at a later date.

I also set the script up to log actions so I had some sort of idea what was going on, or what strings didn't work.

I've updated the Update multiple twitter accounts via SMS from one phone page with the new script.