After reading a post by fellow TWiT Army member, Kylehase, at his blog kylehasegwa.com, about the source location listed in your post. In this post I demonstrate how to configure that source to appear as whatever you prefer…
*Note this post only demonstrates the Mac OS X method… for the Windows implementation see here.
There are two components inside a post on the TWiT Army, or any other Laconi.ca set-up, the first (as highlighted in yellow) is the “status”. The Status is limited to 140 characters.
The second component which you provide is the “source”. The source is reserved for the tools application which you use: for example, if you use the Adobe Air application “twhirl” for the TWiT Army, the source will be posted as “twhirl”, just as if you use the web, the source will be “web”.
In this I will show you how to post with the open source tool “curl”. For more possible irrelevant information see the Wikipedia page here.
The first step is to get an account at army.twit.tv.
The second step is to open the Mac OS X utility “Terminal”, this is found in the “Utilities” folder under “Applications”.
The third step is to copy the following code to Terminal, replacing what is highlighted with appropriate information.
curl “http://army.twit.tv/api/statuses/update.xml” -u USER_NAME:PASSWORD -d “status=is watching TWiT Live…http://live.twit.tv/:&source=an underground hidden lair“
I have highlighted the code to correspond to what you see in the post, with the addition of your username and password in ORANGE.
Then you copy and paste this into Terminal, then press return.
So, if you do this, your post could look like this. (without the highlights)
