Archive for February, 2011
Quick And Easy RSS Parsing With PHP
When I wrote about creating a Twitter bot with PHP, etc. last week I had in mind to continue developing the idea. To this end I’ve created a bot that replaces the formulaic type of URL for an ‘of the day’ type page (for example http://www.dilbert.com/strips/”.date(“Y”).”-”.date(“m”).”-”.date(“d”).”/”) with an RSS parser so the bot will retweet [...]
Create a Twitter Bot With PHP, YOURLs and Cron
Ever since I’ve been on Twitter I’ve been fascinated by Twitter bots. You know, automated Twitter posting robots. There are all sorts of Twitter bots. Most of them are Twitter accounts with a single purpose that are run by some sort of programming. Most often they monitor Twitter’s RSS feed for specific keywords and either [...]
Facebook’s Secure Browsing (HTTPS) Setting, It’s Problems And A Solution
Facebook recently introduced the ability to browse their website using https instead of standard http. This allows it’s users to use their website more securely. To turn it on use the following steps: Click the Account menu in the top right corner and select Account Settings. Next to the Account Security heading click the Change [...]
Turning Off Deck.ly in TweetDeck
One of my biggest Twitter pet peeves is when someone tweets longer than 140 characters and you need to click a link to go to another website to see the whole message. My opinion is that there are other ways to communicate messages that are longer than the Twitter limit such as splitting the message [...]