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 [...]
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 [...]
Twitter Pet Peeves
As Twitter has grown in popularity I’ve developed some pet peeves about the way people use it. Here’s a few. Feel free to add yours to the comments. Live Blogging Events Twitter has become a place for people to live blog all sorts of things. I think this is a good thing. Well mostly a [...]
Follow Someone Anonymously on Twitter
Over time I’ve come accross several people whose Twitter accounts I’d like to keep up with but don’t want to follow. Some are people I’m just mildly interested in. Others are people that I don’t want knowing that I’m following them. Twitter’s Lists feature gives me a great way to do this by creating a [...]
Still Waiting For The New Twitter
On September 15 Twitter announced a new web front end that would change the way people use the service. A new two paned interface that would rival all the third party apps people use to post their messages. The new UI is being rolled out incrementally which means that it could take a while for [...]