Bible Verse Auto Tweet Example

Earlier this week I built a quick tool that automatically updates a Twitter account with a daily Bible verse from ESV.org (@TodaysVerse). The English Standard Version Bible has a really nice API that allows anyone to pull passages directly from their site. Likewise, Twitter has a very popular API that allows developers to build programs and scripts that can update a status and much more.

Since I’m a fan of open source solutions, I’m sharing this PHP script as an example of updating Twitter using PHP-Twitter with the Twitter API. Enjoy. [...]