Gas Tracker is a Twitter hack which allows a follower to tweet basic gas usage information to gain a greater insight into ones driving habits.

For example, let’s assume that I am at the gas station to fill up my tank. It cost $47.43 for 14.23 gallons to fill your tank and my odo odometer reading is 74,345 miles. After I am following @gastracker I send it a direct message:

d gastracker $47.43 14.23g 74345

Over time, simple twitters to update your activity while at the pump will allow you to log in and visualize your driving behavior showing such graphs as rate of mileage accumulation and miles per gallon. We have some visions on how this will evolve with increased functionality, but in the spirit of TinyApps, we have to ship it to get some feedback.

Once you follow Gas Tracker on Twitter, you will receive a direct message welcoming you Gas Tracker and giving you instructions to go to the Gas Tracker Website. At the website, you will enter your Twitter name and Gas Tracker will direct tweet you a password. With this password, you’ll then be able log in and view your driving behavior. Do be patient, as the more data you input, the more meaningful the analysis will be.

Enjoy, and please do give us some feedback.

This script assists you to enter your contacts when twittering. Twitter Auto Complete shows your contacts to the left of your update box when you enter an ‘@’. While you recall who you were trying to include in your message, this script auto completes your contact when only one option is remaining.

The grease monkey script is hosted on userscripts.org and you can download it here. Thank you, Josh, for stepping me through this process and for not letting Todd_Zero know where he stands on the totem pole; he very well may weep.