Re: [Hampshire] Twitter Bot

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Author: Paul Tansom
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To: hampshire
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Twitter Bot
** Dr A. J. Trickett <adam.trickett@???> [2009-08-20 20:19]:
> 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

** end quote [Dr A. J. Trickett]

I'm aptanet on both Twitter and identi.ca.

I've also created a HantsLUG group on identi.ca if anyone wants to join. It
will pick up and re'dent anything with !hantslug in as I understand it.

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