Auto Tweeting

Auto Tweeting Random Tweets

This entry is part 1 of 4 in the series Auto Tweeting

The first twitter bot I created for a site was an ugly critter. It consisted of ~30 pre-constructed tweets that the cronjob would randomly go through. Some messages were double posted, some were too similar and it was just terrible. I didn’t track numbers but I’m wiling to bet I lost a lot of REAL [...]

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Auto Tweeting User’s Actions on Your Site (Part 1)

This entry is part 2 of 4 in the series Auto Tweeting

Automated tweets are the worst, right? What about intelligently automated tweets with a splash of randomness, some spinning as well as name and link dropping? You with me now? Let’s take a ride through a bit of back story. Looking for Code? If you are just looking for code you are in the wrong place. [...]

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Automated Tweets: Rules of the Road

This entry is part 3 of 4 in the series Auto Tweeting

I thought about just amending this to each of the posts in this series but I think it’s an important enough topic to cover on it’s own. Twitter has rules and even though everyone else doesn’t follow then you should. Now their listed rules of the road are subject to some interpretation but if you [...]

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Update on the Twitter Auto Post Bot’s Progress

This entry is part 4 of 4 in the series Auto Tweeting

If you will allow my musing, I launched a couple killer new features to my Twitter Bot the other day that I’d like to pat myself on the back about. My Twitter Bot now retweets other Twitter accounts posts! Wow Terri, that’s revolutionary (NOT!) you say? Well here’s some other details about why I think [...]

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