Hi,

2009/5/24 Michael Foord <fuzzy...@voidspace.org.uk>:
> The code for the PyCon bot is linked to from the PyCon Twitter account:
>
>   http://twitter.com/pycon

Thanks, got it.

> It's a command line script, which I guess can be run from a cron job (?).

Yes, when I have the login details and have checked out side-effects
of its dependencies, I will install it.

Thanks,

John
--

>
> Michael
>
> John Pinner wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> 2009/5/24 Michael Foord <fuzzy...@voidspace.org.uk>:
>>
>>>
>>> John Pinner wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> 2009/5/24 Michael Foord <fuzzy...@voidspace.org.uk>:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> John Pinner wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 2009/5/24 Christian Scholz <c...@comlounge.net>:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Zeth wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Who was running the Europython twitter account? It seems woefully
>>>>>>>> out
>>>>>>>> of
>>>>>>>> date.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> http://twitter.com/europython
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> If someone shares with me the password, I will write some new posts
>>>>>>>> there.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Yes, I am. It should be fed by the blog RSS feed automatically but I
>>>>>>> wil
>>>>>>> send you the password later today.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is the account working?  It claims to be following me, and I've tagged
>>>>>> a couple of things #europython, but my (rare) tweets do not appear on
>>>>>> it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Unless it is setup as an auto-retweet bot (which it shouldn't be IMO)
>>>>> then
>>>>> it wouldn't repeat your messages. It should be tweeting new posts to
>>>>> the
>>>>> EuroPython blog.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Well I'll leave all this stuff to you modern young social networking
>>>> whipper-snappers, but to my simple mind:
>>>>
>>>> * Christian says it's taking new blog posts and tweeting them, the
>>>> reverse of what you say,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Sorry - my meaning was unclear - parentheses or better punctuation would
>>> have helped. I meant that new posts to the EP blog would be tweeted.
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> * If I follow you, I see your tweets, so why is this not the same with
>>>> ep,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> If you were logged in as the ep twitter you would see your posts. If I
>>> follow you I don't see posts from everyone you follow.
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> * With how it is no, it seems pointless!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Unless it is used to send messages it is pointless!
>>>
>>> There was a PyCon twitter account which was setup to retweet messages
>>> sent
>>> directly to it which was very useful during PyCon.
>>>
>>> If you sent a message like:
>>>
>>> �...@pycon Birds of a feather starting in Runcorn room in five minutes.
>>>
>>> It would tweet the following message (seen by anyone following it):
>>>
>>>  Birds of a feather starting in Runcorn room in five minutes. (From
>>> @someone)
>>>
>>> This was driven by a Python script which may be available somewhere.
>>> Should
>>> I look into it?
>>>
>>
>> Please!
>>
>> Of course, after EP we should all know about because of Andreas
>> Schreiber's talk.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> John
>> --
>>
>
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