One for the twitterati

Just built a bot which tweets new forum topics. Follow @stwforum for even lower productivity 🙂

Tweet or post here to request enhancements.

STW powers that be, happy to turn it off if you don’t like it.

sort the egg out 🙂

Sort something out. Haven’t a clue what you mean mate.

Suggestions and/or donations to replace the egg? Reckon I could use the ST logo?

It tweets every new topic?

use stw logo & write its un official in biog with website link 🙂

@Harry_the_Spider yep. not the classifieds though

@timc done

i reckon you can change the appearance name to STW Forum bot, unofficial in description should cover it

Have followed.

May unfollow if my feed gets clogged with notifications of what tyres/coffee machine/audi a4 threads.

So, YOU decide if WE want our posts on Twitter?

No. You don’t decide.

no, you now decide when you post 🙂

I’m going to set up @oflashearty to tweet just yours flash. 😛

Already done it, DD. 😉

Tim, why? Why do you get to decide what is posted to ****tter? Those who post on this forum are doing just that. Posting on this forum. They are not posting elsewhere. They are posting on this forum. Yes, fine, it’s searchable elsewhere, etc, but the decision of the forum poster is to post it here. You should respect their decision.

You want me to take the usernames out of the twitter posts? No probs, just say so. will take 10 minutes.

the point of an RSS (commonly taken to mean Really Simple Syndication) feed as provided by the forum software (and what I use to get the posts) is to syndicate the content to other outlets. I don’t think I’m doing anything that is against the spirit of the data provided.

Just now:

@oflashearty whinged about twitter. Again. And he called it twatter. He doesn’t care about twitter though. Or does he?

I was joking CaptainFlashheart, settle down 8)

Its a link to a post on an open public forum, really don’t see why your bothered? like you say its there for all to see via google amongst other places…

I think its great myself & will find it useful, fair play for setting it up!

people can read what goes on here?

FFS who knew and what about the dolphin children

(followed just to make my twitter look more used)

If the Unofficial STW bot follows me back is that cyber stalking?

It tweets every new topic?

@Harry_the_Spider yep. not the classifieds though

Not sure why I’d want my twitter timeline clogging with every post on here when I could just look on here.

I’m oot.

its every new thread / topic, not every post

OK. I stand corrected.

How many is that a day typically?

Tim, why? Why do you get to decide what is posted to ****tter? Those who post on this forum are doing just that. Posting on this forum. They are not posting elsewhere. They are posting on this forum. Yes, fine, it’s searchable elsewhere, etc, but the decision of the forum poster is to post it here. You should respect their decision.

They’re posting to the internet, it’s completely public so I fail to see the big deal? AFAIK (could be wrong, often am) I could do anything I like with the data I could scrape from posts on here, part of the reason why people should think before they post…

Those who post on this forum are doing just that. Posting on this forum. They are not posting elsewhere. They are posting on this forum. Yes, fine, it’s searchable elsewhere, etc, but the decision of the forum poster is to post it here. You should respect their decision.

That’s a quaint view.

Do you have nothing else to do??

Do you have nothing else to do??

It’s a bot, he only had to do it once 😉

How many is that a day typically?

How long has the bot been tweeting?
239 posts so far.

TWITTER IS FOR TWITS TWITTER IS FOR TWITS TWITTER IS FOR TWITS TWITTER IS FOR TWITS TWITTER IS FOR TWITS TWITTER IS FOR TWITS TWITTER IS FOR TWITS TWITTER IS FOR TWITS

PERSONALLY I THINK ITS DISGUSTING, WHAT I POST ON HERE IS ONLY FOR PEOPLE ON HERE TO SEE. IMAGINE IF STRANGERS COULD LOG ON AND SEE ALL THE PRIVATE STUFF ON THE FORUM?!?!

RETWEET MY POSTS IF YOU WANT BUT I’LL BE STARTING EVERYTHING I WRITE WITH 140 CHARACTERS OF ‘TWITTER IS FOR TWITS’ BEFORE WRITING MY IMPORTANT OPINION ON STUFF.

YOU DISGUST ME, YOU DISGUST THE FORUM, AND WORST OF ALL YOU’VE LET YOURSELF ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD!

IT COULD BE A BLOODY KIDS FACE NEXT TIME.

Shouty man frighten me

I’LL BE STARTING EVERYTHING I WRITE WITH 140 CHARACTERS

Apparently it’s being cut to 135 characters in the budget today.

TWITTER IS FOR TWITS TWITTER IS FOR TWITS TWITTER IS FOR TWITS TWITTER IS FOR TWITS TWITTER IS FOR TWITS TWITTER IS FOR TWITS TWITTER IS FOR TWITS TWITTER IS FOR TWITS

SHUT UP, DONT YOU KNOW YOU’RE BEING TWITTED RIGHT NOW?!?!?!?!

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Fascinating they are too.

It’s a bot, he only had to do it once

shhh people will want to know if the bot is being treated nicely

So this is going to drop roughly 240 tweets into my time line every day?

Sorry for being pedantic, but I’m not sure of the point of it.

So this is going to drop roughly 240 tweets into my time line every day?

Not if you don’t follow it 🙂

I guess it’s in case you’re worried about missing a new thread and use Twitter a lot. (I’m not and I don’t.)

Me too. I guess it’s an age thing.

Good work. Would it be cheeky to ask if you’d be happy to share the code? I realise it’s stuff that I can google easily, but a working example is worth a thousand words 🙂

it’s more interesting than a lot of twitter feeds so far….

This is quite cool actually. Good work.

possibly more use as a classifieds watcher bot for the traders 😉

Following as C00lhandluke

Might unfollow if it gets too much though.

Also, not sure my productivity can drop much further than “hardly anything”

I like this. But I’m pondering the issues surrounding how it’s been set up and the use of our logo. Gah! Nothing is simple is it 🙂

I don’t want to come across as overly harsh but we’ve put a lot of time and money into protecting our brand and although this has clearly been done with the very best of intentions it’s the possible implications for what can/could/maybe will happen in the future that is worrying me.

I’m chatting with the OP about this and we’ll definitely sort something out here.
Like I said, I like this in principal 🙂