I originally wanted to create the update scheduler as a means to keep updates flowing ot my profile in an attempt to keep people interested and also to keep giving updates during the day without having to post on Twitter at my desk job (probably frowned upon).  Well then my wife told me I should offer it to the people on the site.  Good idea!  I had to make some adjustments to make it available for anyone to use, but it should work now just fine.  You'll have to create a getupanddiy.com account in order to get started.  Login here

 The Twitter update scheduler is a tool which schedules future twitter updates for you so that you don't have to keep throwing updates at your ever-hungry twitter followers. It also saves your old tweets to a second database for later retrieval. Future updates can be scheduled for specific times, periodic, random, and recurring!

1. Create a Twitter User if you don't have one already
2. Log onto Get Up! and DIY (www.getupanddiy.com/login/login_reg.php)
3. Go to your User Control Panel and click on the Twitter Updates section: http://www.getupanddiy.com/ControlPanel/control-twitter.php
4. Enter a tweet (twitter update) into the text box provided.  Select one of the following timing methods:
   --Specific Time and Date (or NOW for an immediate update)
   --Random time: This inserts the update into the schedule list at a random number of hours after the final entry in the list.  Random timing is good if you don't want to be too predictable in your updates.  I guess it probably looks more like you are truely updating it and not having a scheduler do it for you if that matters to you.
   --Periodic Time:  This inserts the update into the schedule list at a given number of hours after the final entry in the list.
5. Each of the above choices can be set to recurring every specifed number of hours
6. Press the submit button next to the desired timing method.

If the update is scheduled for the future it will get put into the first table you see.  You can select single or multiple entries in this table and adjust their time according to what you want them to be.  The update then gets thrown into an "old updates" database for future use.  You can press the REVIVE button below that category in order to get one of your old updates back.

If you are interested in having the source code just let me know.  Just click on the "Contact Author" button.

If enough people are interested in the source code I'll just put it on this page.

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