Twitter Bots

Twitter Bots what they are and how to make them Neil Crosby - twitbot.com

What’s Twitter?
You all know already.
But if you don’t…
SMS length mini updates of your life.

What’s a Bot?
Automated process that responds to user input.

Twitter API
I’ve created an encapsulation in PHP.
This makes things easy.
$api = new Twitter($uname, $pword);
$messages = $api->directMessages->direct_messages();
$api->status->update( ”tweet tweet" );
$followers = $api->user->followers();

Examples of Twitter Bots RSS Channel Werewolf Web Service “Friendly”

RSS Bot
Tell it to watch an RSS feed.
Whenever the feed is updated, it tweets.
E.g. TenWordReview, ttwr

Channel Bot
Bot echos any direct messages out to the public timeline.
Only people following the bot see these messages.
Thus, we achieve channels in Twitter.
E.g. yahoofood

Werewolf Bot
Written for yesterday
“ d werebot wwwhs cbetta fatbusinessman mseckington cazm cubicgarden ginader niqui phae aral SteveMarshall cackhanded”
w erewolf, h ealer, s eer
Direct messages each player to tell them what they are. No cards required.
E.g. werebot

Web Service Bot
More complicated (but still not very).
Takes input from user.
Passes input to web service.
Direct messages user with result of web service call.
No working example yet (ttwr soon).

“ Friendly” Bot
Keeps track of who’s following him and then friends them.
Vital for easy management of channel, werewolf and web service bots.
Currently unimplemented (oh noes).

Where’s the Automated?
Cron job!

Here’s the Code!
http: //twitbot .com/download

Rettribution
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/striatic/1276092/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stinkypeter/157437582/
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Twitter Bots

by Neil Crosby on Mar 19, 2008

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