Copying the main backstage list... This just happened again, and what seems to happen is...
- ID 33755 (swine flu) seems to be the current item in the alert data XML - every now and then, this switches to ID 33637 (Obama rescue package), only to change back to 33755 a few minutes later So seems something strange going on with this alert data. Have you stopped supporting this? If so, is there an alternative? The bbcbreaking twitter bot is the most popular of my BBC twitter bots (nearly 100,000 followers), so would be a shame to abandon it. Mario. On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 7:46 PM, Mario Menti <mme...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi there, > I'm using the breaking news XML at > http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/bsp/hi/services/desktop_alerts/xml/ukfs/alert_data.xmlfor > the > http://twitter.com/bbcbreaking twitter bot. Over the last few days some > odd things appear to have happened - it either changed the breaking news > item back and forth a few times, and/or changed the ID of the news items. > > The way the bot works is that it posts an item as soon as the ID in the XML > feed is different from what it was previously. Should I change this logic? > It's been working perfectly for at least 2 years, the issues only seem to > have appeared over the last few days. > > Cheers, > Mario. >
