[OSM-talk] Twitter bots

[Andrew Ayre]

Shaun McDonald wrote:
> 
> 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.

Alexander - I think if you urlencode a URL before passing it to twitter, 
twitter will automatically shorten it using the bit.ly service. Might be 
something to look into. Then neither openstreetmap.org or osm.org will 
be used for the URLs.

Andy

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