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> If you were to build a bot to tweet about the weather in Sheffield, you might as well use the API. I don't think twitter is that place and it hasn't been for

by pooper 4y ago

> If you were to build a bot to tweet about the weather in Sheffield, you might as well use the API. I don't think twitter is that place and it hasn't been for a while if it ever was. I just watched this video again... https://youtu.be/ddO9idmax0o https://youtu.be/ddO9idmax0o To me, the draw of twitter was you could text messages (SMS) to 40404 or get texts from 40404 from people I choose to follow. I had unlimited minutes and unlimited texts but I didn't have an app phone back in 2008 when I signed up for Twitter. The world has changed since then... I'd say if you were to build a bot to tweet about the weather in Sheffield, you are probably better off setting up your own server to write blog posts or something like that? Maybe look into microdata or RSS or something too?

kevinmchugh 4y ago
It's very common to build bots for Twitter. They post on Twitter because there's an audience there. I'm sure there's lots of places I could get an rss weather subscription, but I stopped using rss. This is a Twitter account that started relatively recently - I like it. https://twitter.com/_restaurant_bot https://twitter.com/_restaurant_bot This sort of bot has had a good place on Twitter for at least a decade, going back to @everyword.