Twittering from SL

I've read a number of blog posts by Ordinal Malaprop, Kisa Naumova and others about using Twitter from SL. Very cool stuff! The great thing about Twitter, from a scripting standpoint, is that if you just want to do updates from within Second Life, you can do it with just a few lines of LSL code and post directly to the Twitter servers. Here's a simple example that I hope you'll find useful:

//put your Twitter username and password here
string twitter_user = "";
string twitter_pass = "";

updateTwitter(string update) {
    if ((twitter_user != "") && (twitter_pass != "")) {
        string url = "http://" + twitter_user + 
            ":" + twitter_pass + 
            "@twitter.com/statuses/update.xml";
        llHTTPRequest(url, [HTTP_METHOD, "POST", 
            HTTP_MIMETYPE, 
            "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"], 
            "status=" + llEscapeURL(update));
    }
}

default {

    state_entry() {
    }
    
    touch_start(integer num_detected) {
        updateTwitter("Hello from LSL");
    }

    http_response(key request_id, 
        integer status, 
        list metadata, 
        string body) {
        //always returns a 415 error
        //unless it fails, in which case
        //a 500 error is returned
    }

}