XChat, Xqf, and Twitter

I’ve been tinkering with Twitter, which is a bit like a manual desktop presence interface. Well, manual to start with, but easily automated from various applications, and — of course — with the Web 2.0 social element. I.E. Seeing what your friends are twittering on about.

I have a script for XChat, which connects XQF (a frontend for QStat… a Linux version of QuakeSpy/GameSpy). The script notifies folks in specific IRC channels when I’m playing a game, server details, and when I return again. I’ve extended the script to also submit Tweets to Twitter when I join games, and when I return… Quite cool.

Simply drop the script into your .xchat2 directory, and edit it to configure. Download hyar!