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!!USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!!

The code will (unlikely) destroy the interwebs or (likely) spam
your twitter-account. It may break unexpected. Have fun.

Resources
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GooglePlus-Scraper from Fabian Beiner <[email protected]>: http://fabian-beiner.de
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Germany

Twitter-Code from http://www.eutony.net/weatherbot.php

Quick Start Guide
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1. Install required software

   Ubuntu-Example
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   sudo aptitude install libcurl4-openssl-dev
   sudo pecl install -R /usr/lib/php oauth-0.99.9
   echo "extension=oauth.so" | sudo tee /etc/php5/conf.d/oauth.ini
   
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2. Copy config.php.example to config.php and fill in the corresponding values:
   consumer_key and consumer_secret are Twitter-data and can be retrieved from

    https://dev.twitter.com/apps/new

3. Register your App
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   php oauth.php register
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4. Open the url in the browser, get the PIN (authorize) and validate
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   php oauth validate PIN 
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5. Create cronjob (example below):
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   */1 * * * *	cd /usr/local/gp2tw && ./sync.php
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TODO
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- Add some kind of URL-Shortener
- Check if it's possible to get a direct link to the Google+-post