Continuing on from my previous post about posting your current Exchange calendar appointments as twitter status updates this script explores some more creative uses of the Twitter and Exchange 2007 API's. This script will read your current Twitter account details and grab your friend’s timeline and then create emails in your inbox (or other folder of choice) for each update in your friends twitter timelines (or the people your following). To match up the Received time of the email with the time the status update is posted on Twitter the script sets the necessary mapi properties to make the message appear that it was received at the same time as the status update was posted. To keep track of which updates have been created as email it downloads the latest feed and then on each run it uses Xpath to read the XML file and loads a hashtable which is used to ensure that no status update is created as an email twice. To access Exchange and create the messages in the inbox from the twitt...
Pushing the Envelope in Messaging and Office 365 Development