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Introduction: Create a group Twitter account Posted: January 22, 2008 | Author: hilary | Filed under: blog | Tags: hack , social networking , twitter , web apps , web dev | 13 Comments » Twitter rocks. It’s useful for all kinds of things , but especially for chronicling a live event as it happens, including the pre-event discussion and post-conference wrapup. We’re very excited to be hosting NewB Camp here in Providence, RI on February 23rd. In preparation for the event, Sara created a NewBCamp Twitter account and I coded up this quick script to pull in all tweets related to the conference. It examines all of your followers tweets for a particular phrase or tag, and then reposts those tweets containing the tag to its own timeline with the author’s name prepended. I’m running this as a cron job on my hosting account. You can see it in action here . This is a quick hack. It has a couple of issue that I’m aware of: Someone has to log in and manually add
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1 Create a group Twitter account Posted: January 22, 2008 | Author: hilary | Filed under: blog | Tags: hack , social networking , twitter , web apps , web dev | 13 Comments » Twitter rocks. [sent-1, score-0.901]
2 It’s useful for all kinds of things , but especially for chronicling a live event as it happens, including the pre-event discussion and post-conference wrapup. [sent-2, score-0.275]
3 We’re very excited to be hosting NewB Camp here in Providence, RI on February 23rd. [sent-3, score-0.123]
4 In preparation for the event, Sara created a NewBCamp Twitter account and I coded up this quick script to pull in all tweets related to the conference. [sent-4, score-0.729]
5 It examines all of your followers tweets for a particular phrase or tag, and then reposts those tweets containing the tag to its own timeline with the author’s name prepended. [sent-5, score-0.852]
6 I’m running this as a cron job on my hosting account. [sent-6, score-0.259]
7 It has a couple of issue that I’m aware of: Someone has to log in and manually add followers. [sent-9, score-0.258]
8 The Twitter API only returns the previous 20 friends posts, and it’s possible we might miss some if we have so many friends that the post rate exceeds 20/50 secs (our permitted API request rate). [sent-10, score-1.183]
9 I do hope that you find this useful for creating your own Twitter event monitor! [sent-11, score-0.213]
10 $post['text']; // post the new post to the newbcamp account with the user's name prepended $twitter->updateStatus($new_post); } } } Update 10. [sent-20, score-1.303]
11 2009 : This script is basically superseded by Twitter’s lists feature . [sent-22, score-0.271]
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