Control your PC remotely with Twitter
TweetMyPC turns Twitter into something else; A platform to send commands to a computer system. It provides the means to shutdown, restart or logoff PCs remotely. A client – the TweetMyPC software – has to be installed and configured on the remote computer system. This essentially means to add a Twitter username and password in the software which has to run in the background. An Internet connection is obviously needed as well as this is how the status updates are send from Twitter to the local computer system.
The user can then initiate the shutdown, restart of logoff by updating the status at Twitter. Changing the Twitter status to Logoff would for instance send the logoff command remotely to the computer system where it would then be initiated. It is advised to create a new Twitter account for this so that no one but the owner of the computer system can send the commands using Twitter.
TweetMyPC checks for status updates every minute and runs most of the time in the Windows system tray.
Christopher is the founder of iMod - Most of his time is spent building websites and pushing the limits with Search Engine Optimization. You can follow him on Twitter @ChristopherM
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May 5th, 2009 at 12:25 pm
Novel, but in the face of a technology like LogMeIn, possibly redundant…
That, and Twitter’s had some hectic security issues (like getting the admin system hacked), lol.
May 5th, 2009 at 4:37 pm
Agreed, it’s nothing amazing or new, but with the huge uptake of Twitter, it’s kinda cool :)