I've used the twitter api a while ago to send authentication codes via txt for a two step authentication system. It worked well for a while but wasn't 100% reliable all the time. Not sure what it's like now as I haven't used it for a while.
Cheers, William. On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Super Steve <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Nathan. > > One other limiting factor, I think, is that Twitter will restrict > messages to 140 characters. So it's ok for sending short status > messages but no good for longer things. > > On Jan 13, 1:17 pm, "Nathan Kennedy" <[email protected]> > wrote: >> 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. > > -- > NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug > To post, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to > [email protected] >
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