Super Steve, Very interesting concept you have here, nice work.
Your downside of 150 messages per hour may not be accurate, their API document states: "Rate limiting only applies to methods that request information with the HTTP GET command. API methods that use HTTP POST to submit data to Twitter, such as statuses/update do not affect rate limits." They go on to say, though, that the 'daily updates and follower limits' still apply. I think this ends up with a limit of 1,000 updates per day. More information here: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Rate-limiting I've started using the Twitter Streaming API for a project which translates the occurrences of keywords into real life actions (I'm a micro controller geek also). Heaps of fun. Thanks, Nathan. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Super Steve Sent: Wednesday, 13 January 2010 12:35 p.m. To: NZ PHP Users Group Subject: [phpug] Using Twitter for Free Web to Txt Messages? I know there has been several people on here asking about how to send text messages from a website and there were several answers. Lately I've been playing around with using Twitter and having tweets sent to my phone. I got to thinking that this might be a way to have my website send me txt messages for free. I've found lots of PHP code that sends a message to Twitter, and then I just need to set up a Twitter account and link it to my phone and disable other people from following that account. Free txt messages to me from my website! Of course this is only any good if you want to send txt messages to just one phone (or a limited number of phones); it won't allow you to send a txt message to any phone. But I have several clients that are currently using other methods to get their websites to send them txt messages (i.e. urgent requests from their clients, etc). Has anyone else used Twitter in this manner? The only down-side I can see if that there's a limit of 150 messages per hour.
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