Re: [OSM-talk] Twitter bots

2009-08-27 Thread Valent Turkovic
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 8:31 AM, Alexander Klink wrote: > Hi everyone, > > This weekend, I hacked together a quick twitter bot, > which now tweets all changesets in a certain are (in > my case, Darmstadt, Germany) - see http://twitter.com/osm_darmstadt > > I've found it quite useful thus far, on th

Re: [OSM-talk] Twitter bots

2009-08-25 Thread Peter Körner
> What's the URL for the code, again, for those of us running the bot who are > daft enough to have deleted that original email? Take a look into the Archives: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2009-August/040750.html Peter ___ talk mailin

Re: [OSM-talk] Twitter bots

2009-08-25 Thread Tom Chance
On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:56:00 +0200, Alexander Klink wrote: > Sorry, didn't think about that. I've changed the bot to use > osm.org, my bots will use that right away, I hope the other > bot owners will update as well. What's the URL for the code, again, for those of us running the bot who are daf

Re: [OSM-talk] Twitter bots

2009-08-24 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 24 Aug 2009, at 18:56, Alexander Klink wrote: Sorry, didn't think about that. I've changed the bot to use osm.org, my bots will use that right away, I hope the other bot owners will update as well. 8-) There currently isn't a shortlink for the browse pages. Instead you'll need to use

Re: [OSM-talk] Twitter bots

2009-08-24 Thread Alexander Klink
Hi, On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 10:51:23AM +0100, Shaun McDonald wrote: >> a few of us like to use a twitter search for "openstreetmap" to see >> what humans are saying but recently pretty much all of the tweets we >> receive for this search are from these bots. >> >> Would it be possible to reduce th

Re: [OSM-talk] Twitter bots

2009-08-24 Thread Mitja Kleider
Am Montag, 24. August 2009 schrieb John McKerrell: > On 24 Aug 2009, at 17:03, Andrew Ayre wrote: > > Alexander - I think if you urlencode a URL before passing it to > > twitter, > > twitter will automatically shorten it using the bit.ly service. > > Might be > > something to look into. Then neithe

Re: [OSM-talk] Twitter bots

2009-08-24 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2009/8/24 Andrew Ayre : > Alexander - I think if you urlencode a URL before passing it to twitter, > twitter will automatically shorten it using the bit.ly service. Might be > something to look into. Then neither openstreetmap.org or osm.org will > be used for the URLs. it depends on the length,

Re: [OSM-talk] Twitter bots

2009-08-24 Thread John McKerrell
On 24 Aug 2009, at 17:03, Andrew Ayre wrote: Alexander - I think if you urlencode a URL before passing it to twitter, twitter will automatically shorten it using the bit.ly service. Might be something to look into. Then neither openstreetmap.org or osm.org will be used for the URLs. Alte

Re: [OSM-talk] Twitter bots

2009-08-24 Thread Andrew Ayre
Shaun McDonald wrote: > > On 24 Aug 2009, at 09:35, Tim Waters (chippy) wrote: > >> Hi Alexander, >> >> Nice to see it popular, however... >> >> a few of us like to use a twitter search for "openstreetmap" to see >> what humans are saying but recently pretty much all of the tweets we >> receive f

Re: [OSM-talk] Twitter bots

2009-08-24 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 24 Aug 2009, at 09:35, Tim Waters (chippy) wrote: Hi Alexander, Nice to see it popular, however... a few of us like to use a twitter search for "openstreetmap" to see what humans are saying but recently pretty much all of the tweets we receive for this search are from these bots. Would it

Re: [OSM-talk] Twitter bots

2009-08-24 Thread Tim Waters (chippy)
Hi Alexander, Nice to see it popular, however... a few of us like to use a twitter search for "openstreetmap" to see what humans are saying but recently pretty much all of the tweets we receive for this search are from these bots. Would it be possible to reduce the level of spam - one example co

Re: [OSM-talk] Twitter bots

2009-08-20 Thread Andrew Ayre
Alexander Klink wrote: > Hi everyone, > > This weekend, I hacked together a quick twitter bot, > which now tweets all changesets in a certain are (in > my case, Darmstadt, Germany) - see http://twitter.com/osm_darmstadt > > I've found it quite useful thus far, on the one hand I write > better cha

[OSM-talk] Twitter bots

2009-08-19 Thread Alexander Klink
Hi everyone, This weekend, I hacked together a quick twitter bot, which now tweets all changesets in a certain are (in my case, Darmstadt, Germany) - see http://twitter.com/osm_darmstadt I've found it quite useful thus far, on the one hand I write better changeset comments, because I know they wi