[OSM-talk] Twitter bots

[Shaun McDonald]

On 24 Aug 2009, at 09:35, Tim Waters (chippy) wrote:

> Hi Alexander,
>
> Nice to see it popular, however...
>
> a few of us like to use a twitter search for "openstreetmap" to see
> what humans are saying but recently pretty much all of the tweets we
> receive for this search are from these bots.
>
> Would it be possible to reduce the level of spam - one example could
> be for the bots to use the shorturl (osm.org) or other short url
> service instead of the full openstreetmap.org url?
>

+1

My current search is openstreetmap OR #osm, and it is really annoying  
to see all these uninsteresting twitters.

There currently isn't a shortlink for the browse pages. Instead you'll  
need to use a third party service.

Personally I wouldn't want every edit in an area, just a daily or  
hourly summary of the number of changes.

Shaun

> Cheers,
>
> Tim
>
> 2009/8/20 Alexander Klink <osm at alech.de>:
>> 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.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>  Alex
>>
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