On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 5:42 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai<abpil...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Noufal, > > The main use of the bot for a conference is for sending updates > via twitter. The way it works is as follows. > > 1. A twitter bot account for the conference is created on twitter. > For our conference it could be "inpycon" for example. > 2. An admin befriends the bot. > 3. For broadcasting (tweeting) a message, the admin sends a command > to the twitter bot with the message to be tweeted and the bot "tweets" it. > 4. Everyone "following" the bot gets the update. > 5. We can also publish the update on the website in this case, > the in-pycon website. > > These are "push" bots. > > The bot will be running on a server, in this case it should ideally run > on the inpycon server. >
Your idea is fantastic but I cant understand how difficult it is to go to twitter.com and post the message ? At last we will be posting max two messages a day ? So for a simple two message why run such a big setup... regards Vivek -- The hidden harmony is better than the obvious!! _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
