Sometimes hearing the right song is all it takes to brighten your day. That's why, all through 2013, I'll be Twitter jockeying the theme song of your day, every day at 12pm CET.

You can follow me at @tkndk or load up #SongOfTheDay. You can also follow the playlist on Spotify or listen using the player directly to your right.

That's the intended result, but actually, this is all a bit of an experiment — both technically and socially.

This site made from handwritten HTML and CSS — because sometimes you have to go old school — but the project itself uses a variety of online tools to bring you the tunes:

1. Spotify

   Being a premium subscriber, Spotify seemed like the natural choice for the source. Unfortunately, Spotify's APIs don't allow for monitoring a playlist, so I created...

2. Spotifeed

   Spotifeed is best described as just-enough-PHP to scrape the embed link of a Spotify playlist and output an RSS feed. The script is available on GitHub and you are welcome to branch and contribute, or use it to set up your own playlist feed. In this case, the RSS feed is read by...

3. IFTTT

   IFTTT (If This Then That) is a simple online ETL-type tool. For this project I've set up a recipe that grabs the RSS output of my Spotifeed and pushes it to...

4. Buffer

   There are a lot of social media scheduling services out there — and among them, Buffer surfaces as delightfully simple. The free service tier allows you to buffer (get it?) up to ten tweets that go out on a predefined schedule. This lets me queue up songs to be posted to...

5. Twitter

The effect of all this, is that when I add a track to my Song of the Day playlist in Spotify, it'll filter through the chain and get tweeted at precisely the right time. And I can queue up songs up to ten days in advance — which means that the Spotify playlist will probably be ahead.

So what will happen?

• Will anyone notice?

  Probably not.

• Will the number of followers I have be affected?

  At the start of this I had 76 Twitter followers — how many will I have left at the end of the year?

• Will my Klout score be affected?

  Can the simple act of tweeting regularly increase my Klout score from the paltry 28 that it was at the turn of the year?

_{This project is in no way affiliated with any of the companies or websites mentioned above and is for entertainment purposes only.}