How To Control Your PC With Twitter Account

Did you hurriedly leave your house due to an urgent appointment or emergency?  and while you're far away  from your humble home, it just pops into you that you've forgotten to turn-off your Computer/PC, leaving your Personal Computer to some untrusted friends at your home.... finding yourself in such situation what will you do?

If by chance you've configured or bulit a Remote Desktop, then you'll be quite lucky you have but if you don't have anything like that been set-up, then you might find yourself in quite an unlucky situation because you'll be forced to race back home to secure your computer files which might cause delay and the traffic situation might also not be favourable.

We will be showing you how you can set-up an account using twitter to control and switc-off your Personal computer anywhere you find yourself in the world, using this program  TweetMyPC.

TweetMyPC is a little software-application for Windows, written in VB.Net using the .Net-Framework v3.5 SP1, which allows you to control and access your computer from anywhere by simply sending a twitter-message with a special command as its content. 

Why twitter?
Most time when you want to connect two personal computers you need a Server between them to get access and forward the wanted data because firewalls often block direct connections and most people don't have internet-connections with static IPs. For example if you use Skype or another instant messenger, your client connects to a server which 'manages' all the data-transferring and tells the clients the addresses of the other computers. But why should you develop a complete-Server-Client-system just for sending a few short messages to your computer, if there are simple systems like Twitter? This service gives users a really easy and fast way of communication. Twitter already is a stable system for which there are many libraries software-developers can easily use to connect with their programs to twitter. Another advantage of twitter is that the users can even send messages called "tweets" using your mobile phones independent from where they are! And exactly this is what we need for TweetMyPC!
Many people now think why they should use TweetMyPC if there are things like Remote Desktop or vnc; but as already said before, you still need the IP-Address and often an open port for being able to use these technologies - this is not needed with TweetMyPC and it also would be more work to do.

How to use TweetMyPC
1. First download the software from this link  Tweet My PC
2. Next, open Tweet My PC and enter your Twitter account’s login details as shown below

3. If you want to add your own custom commands, you can do it by going into Settings >  Custom Commands
4. After your done click on “Save and Hide”

For more instructions on how to install and use TweetMyPC, see the Installation Guide page.
Also you can find a list showing the commands you can use to control your pc at this wikipage.
You still have any questions? Then take a look at our FAQ.