Remotely control your PC using Twitter Tweets

If your a social media addict and you can't get off your hands on it then you may like this cool opensource software called TweetMyPC. As the name implies, it allows you to remote control your PC by just posting tweets at Twitter. The app allows you to shutdown, restart or log off your Windows PC, remotely via your Twitter account. Its latest version, TweetMyPC 2.0, has lots of new features which includes screenshot, memory usage, ip address, custom commands, reply from TweetMyPC and lots more.



To use TweetMyPC, just download the installer, install, and run the app. On the taskbar, double-click its icon to display the Settings dialog box. Enter your twitter account then click the "save and close" button, TweetMyPC will automatically login to your twitter account and watch for any updates every minute.


Here is a sample Tweet command and reply


TweetMyPC was developed using VB.NET. It uses the Yedda Twitter .NET Library that wraps most of the Twitter API providing a direct access to the various methods and output formats used on the Twitter API. Here are some code snippets from the project.

Login to specified Twitter Account

        'Check for valid Username and Password 
        Dim objTwitter As New Yedda.Twitter
        Dim Updates As XmlDocument
        Try 'Try Logging in
            Updates = objTwitter.GetUserTimelineAsXML(txtUserName.Text.Trim, txtPassword.Text.Trim)
            My.Settings.UserName = txtUserName.Text.Trim
            My.Settings.Password = txtPassword.Text.Trim

        Catch ex As Exception
            MsgBox("Failed to Login to Twitter with the values supplied. Please check your login details.")
            txtUserName.Focus()
            Exit Sub
        End Try

Save settings to DB using SQLite.

        Dim STR_CONNECTIONSTRING As String
        Dim STR_APP_FOLDER_LOCATION As String
        STR_APP_FOLDER_LOCATION = Application.ExecutablePath.Substring(0, Application.ExecutablePath.LastIndexOf("\") + 1)
        STR_CONNECTIONSTRING = "Data Source= " & STR_APP_FOLDER_LOCATION & "DB.s3db;"
        SQLConnect.ConnectionString = STR_CONNECTIONSTRING
        Try
            SQLConnect.Open()
            SQLCommand = SQLConnect.CreateCommand
        Catch ex As Exception
            MsgBox(ex.Message + "Sorry. Please try again")
        End Try
        SQLCommand.CommandText = ""
        SQLCommand.CommandText = "DELETE FROM Settings"
        SQLCommand.ExecuteNonQuery()
        'MsgBox("Succesfully deleted")
        SQLCommand.CommandText = ""
        SQLCommand.CommandText = "INSERT INTO Settings (TwitterUserName, TwitterPassword, GmailUserName, GmailPassword, DownloadLocation) VALUES ('" + txtUserName.Text.Trim + "','" + EncryptString(txtPassword.Text.Trim) + "','" + txtEmailUsername.Text.Trim + "','" + EncryptString(txtEmailPassword.Text.Trim) + "','" + txtDownloadLocation.Text.Trim + "')"
        SQLCommand.ExecuteNonQuery()
        'MsgBox("Succesfully inserted")

        Try
            SQLConnect.Close()
            SQLCommand.Dispose()
        Catch ex As Exception
            MsgBox(ex.Message)
        End Try

Download TweetMyPC Setup Package via [Codeplex].
Download the full sourcecode of TweetMyPC v2.0 via [Codeplex].
All the available Tweet commands are listed here.

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