[OSM-talk] Twitter bots

Andrew Ayre andy at britishideas.com
Fri Aug 21 03:33:17 BST 2009


Alexander Klink wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> This weekend, I hacked together a quick twitter bot,
> which now tweets all changesets in a certain are (in
> my case, Darmstadt, Germany) - see http://twitter.com/osm_darmstadt
> 
> I've found it quite useful thus far, on the one hand I write
> better changeset comments, because I know they will be on
> Twitter, on the other hand, I see what happens in my community.
> 
> If you want to run a similar bot, you can find the source
> at http://git.alech.de/?p=osm_twitter_bots.git
> 
> Alternatively, I can add a bit of code to run more than
> one bot at a time and run a few of them for you (until I
> hit the Twitter API limits), I'd only need a name and a
> bounding box for that.

I've set up two for the areas I am interested in:

   http://twitter.com/osmtucson

   http://twitter.com/osmeastriding

I'll add links to these on the wiki pages for these areas.

Andy

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