Tweet O'cron, schedule your tweets from PHP

Tweet O’cron, schedule your tweets from PHP (with multi-user support)

You’re checking out Tweet O’cron, the best way to schedule tweets using PHP . Tweet O’cron allows you schedule tweets to be posted on Twitter at specific times without any user intervention. You write your tweet, pick a time and date your would like it published and Tweet O’cron takes care of the rest. Use Tweet O’cron to keep regular updates to your Twitter account while you’re away, syncronise tweets with promotions at your store, run a timed treasure hunt and much more…

Easy to use and setup Tweet O’cron uses the Twitter Bootstrap toolkit to allow easy styling changes and customisations, features an API limit monitor so you can check how many requests you have left with Twitters API , fully commented code throughout and its own installer to make setting up a breeze.

You’ll also find detailed instructions on how to get setup with a Twitter Application so you can use the Twitter API and of course full details on how to use setup and use Tweet O’cron.

Update (22 Jan 2012): Feature added, multi-user support
Tweet O’cron now includes support for multiple users so you can schedule tweets for multiple Twitter accounts. Together with this update there have been a number of behind the scenes changes and improvements that we think you will enjoy. (Please note: This update is not directly backwards compatible with the previous Tweet O’cron release)

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Features Overview

• New Multi-user support so you can use multiple twitter accounts
• New Timeline integration
• Custom installer to check and install Tweet O’cron database tables
• Easy to setup, use and extend/customise
• Customised appearance based on the signed in users Twitter account
• Fully commented code throughout
• API limit monitor
• Twitter Bootstrap toolkit (http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/)

Requirements

Tweet O’cron requires a few things to operate, if you have any queries about any of the requirements below we suggest contacting your hosting provider.

• PHP 5 .2+ (older versions may work but they have not been tested)
• MySQL Database (and ability to connect from PHP )
• Twitter account and application (for API access)
• Mcrypt Library for PHP (ask your hosting provider if you are unsure)
• Ability to setup a cron job (ask your hosting provider about this, Tweet O’cron can work without a cron job but this is not recommended)
• URL Rewriting (for Apache hosts the Rewrite module should be enabled for nice URLs)