gistfile2.txt

create an entry in ~/.netrc for your twitter username/password:

machine twitter.com
  login myusername 
  password mypassword

Tweet Now Playing in iTunes.scpt

(* Check if iTunes is running and grab current song / artist / album *)
tell application "System Events"
	if exists process "iTunes" then
		tell application "iTunes"
			if player state is playing then
				set current_song to (name of current track) as Unicode text
				set current_artist to (artist of current track) as Unicode text
				if current_artist is equal to "" then set current_artist to "Unknown"
				set music_playing to "♫ " & current_song & " - " & current_artist
			end if
		end tell
	else
		if button returned of (display dialog "iTunes isn't running" & return & "" buttons {"Wait", "Quit"}) is "Quit" then quit
	end if
end tell


set the_status to quoted form of ("status=" & music_playing)
try
	do shell script "curl -n -d " & the_status & " https://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml --insecure"
on error
	open location "x-launchbar:large-type?string=There+was+an+error+sending+your+tweet.+Please+try+again."
end try