Remote Control Your Computer Using Twitter

All of us know that twitter is one of the most popular social networking site, most of people use it for marketing purpose and big celebrities use it to keep their fans updated about their living and latest news. Its up to you for what purpose you are using your twitter account.  All this was before some tech enthusiasts and developer decided to come together and use the Popular Social Media spot, Twitter for something bigger – Remotely controlling Windows PC with Twitter.
   Now you can do it easily with a small utility known as TweetMyPC which is small software yet effective one. TweetMyPC is a small open source application that enables to send commands to your PC using Twitter and perform several functions like Shut Down, restart, and many more.

Steps to Remote Control Your Windows PC Using Twitter-

• Firstly we need to setup TweetMyPC and as such, first you need to download it. Download TweetMyPC – Just go to this link and click on Install.
• It would download the setup file and then you need to run the downloaded file and it would start downloading and installing the setup. Ensure that .net framework is installed on your Computer.
• The installation part would finish in few minutes.
• I would recommend you to create a new twitter account for this purpose of remotely controlling your Windows PC. Head over and sign up for a new twitter account.
• After creating a New Twitter Account, Login into your account and navigate to settings link on the main page

• On the settings page, navigate to Tweet Privacy section and tick the option of ‘Protect my Tweets’

• After that click on ‘Save Changes’ and it would ask you for Password. Enter your password and again click on ‘Save changes’.  Doing this your commands or your tweets that you make won’t be displayed publicly.
• Now you’re all done and it’s now time run the TweetMyPC Application. So, run it and as you’re running the application for the first time, it would ask you for the login details. You just need to enter your twitter Username and Twitter Password and then click on ‘Save and Hide’. And your application is all set for the job.
• Now TweetMyPC would be running at the background of your PC. Now whenever any command would be sent through your twitter Account, it would be executed on your PC.
• TweetMyPC listens command from your Twitter Account and works upon it within 1 minute.
• If you want to try it, then login into your Twitter Account that TweetMyPC is listening to and write the command as a status update.
• You can try any command, for instance you can post status as command ‘logoff’ and your Computer would be logged off and you will get a reply by TweetMyPC saying Workstation is logging off (in this case). And you can set many other commands to remote control your PC using Twitter.

                                  See list of all Commands here

Source: webadvices.com