After starting Passerd, just point your favorite IRC client to it. If you are
running it locally using default settings, just use server localhost, port
6667
The first time you connect to Passerd, you will be asked to join the
#new-user-setup channel. Follow the instructions from passerd-bot at that
channel to authorize Passerd to post to your account.
You don't even need to give Passerd your Twitter password, if you don't want to. On the other hand, if you don't want to create a new password just for Passerd, you can simply use your Twitter password when logging in.
After you set up your account, you can just configure your client to use the
password when connecting, or use a nickserv-style command to authenticate
after connecting: /MSG PASSERD-BOT LOGIN username password.
Once you authenticate and join the #twitter channel on the server, the
following features are available:
- Sending new updates to Twitter is as simple as sending a message to the channel
- Your friends timeline will appear as IRC messages on the channel
- You can follow/unfollow people using the IRC
/inviteand/kickcommands
Other available features:
- @mentions of your Twitter username appear on a
#mentionschannel - Direct Messages can be sent/received as simple IRC private messages
- Following public lists, by joining any
#@username/listnamechannel - Reading messages from individual users without following them on Twitter,
by joining any
#@usernamechannel - Querying Twitter user information using the IRC
/WHOIScommand
You can type special commands on the IRC channel by prefixing messages with
!. Some of them are:
!- force the Twitter timeline to be fetched immediately!!- force the Twitter timeline to be fetched, including older posts!rate- query the Twitter API rate limit stats!be paranoid- enable "paranoid mode", to avoid accidentaly posting to Twitter!config- query/set specific config flags!helpor/msg passerd-bot help- Show help and other commands
Feel free to contact the author at: [email protected].