Beginner getting a grasp of MVC/CI/PHP and Twitter library

[eluser]n0xie[/eluser]
I'm not sure how to do it on MAMP but since it's based of BSD you should be able to execute a CRON job from the command line, which is basically just a 'scheduled task'. I believe there is also a CI implementations (found it).

You could also take a look at this if you have curl installed:
http://drupal.org/node/434416

Basically you just tell your server to call your specific controller every X minutes. Also very handy for maintenance scripts so definitely worth looking into.