Re: [Hampshire] Twitter Bot

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Author: Dr A. J. Trickett
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To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Twitter Bot
On Thursday 20 Aug 2009, Daniel Pope wrote:
> I've added a Twitter bot at http://twitter.com/HantsLUG which retweets
> HantsLUG members.
>
> As I mentioned on the IRC channel, this was inspired by the forthcoming
> Retweet API announced by Twitter last week. If this materialise as it
> has been described, the HantsLUG feed will "pull in" tweets from members
> rather than copying them. At the moment it's using classical retweets,
> offering not much benefit apart from collecting member's Twitter
> accounts in one place.
>
> With the new API making a clear distinction between retweets and
> original tweets, the committee would also be able to use the account to
> post announcements.
>
> Does anyone else have a Twitter account and want to be included in the
> HantsLUG feed?


I've got a twitter and an identica microblogs:

twitter.com    =>    drajt
identi.ca    =>    ajt


> Also, I tried to add a link to the HantsLUG feed to the wiki but it's
> not saving or letting me preview my edits.


It does that sometimes. It can be sensitive about the content and some pages
are locked anyway...

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Adam Trickett
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