http://twittbot.com

I’ve been working on a project to solve the same problem: how can groups use a twitter-like service, effectively and simply.

The site is http://www.buzzable.com – currently in Beta.

Specifically, for Shai Gluskin, you can simply create crime-watchers hub, and post into that hub from the web and/or your mobile phone. You can get sms updates from this hub.

Thanks for the discussion guys.

Sometimes things just all come together.

Shai

Thanks much. It seems like the auto-friending should be part of the API, but oh well, not terrible.

I had to adjust the code a tad to make it run off of my server. The Boolien in response to “if” testing if the message had the right tag would always return false.

I’m running php off a mosso.com server which runs PHP Version 5.2.0-8+etch5~pu1. That’s a mouthful.

Here is what I did.

Original code:
if (stripos($post[‘text’],$tag)) {

What I did to make it work (for me)
$tagexists = stripos($post['text'], $tag);
if ($tagexists !== false) {

Hmmm, it seems like it should work either way!

This is great stuff. Twitter has so much potential. I’m going to use this for a group crime reporting Twitter for my neighborhood.

All the best,

Shai

The group twitter user will only pull tweets from the people that it is following. You should log in and have that user follow the set of twitter users you would like in the group.

Alternatively, you can e-mail support@twitter.com and ask them to turn on auto-following for your account. That way, you’ll be set up to follow everyone who follows you.

Good luck!

Hilary

Now my problem is that it just doesn’t work. No messages pulled in, but no errors when the script runs .

I’m confused by this part of the instructions, so maybe that is where the problem is: “# Someone has to log in and manually add followers.”

What?

What I thought that meant is that, in order for a person’s twitters to be posted to the group account, that person needs to sign up as a “follower” of the group account. Please confirm. Then, as long as a person includes the designated tag in the twitter, that post will get reposted, prepended by the person’s Twitter name, to the group twitter.

I presume that the group account does not need to “follow” its followers?

Any insights on the problem would be helpful. This functionality is way cool and very needed.

Shai

This is fantastic. I’d love to get this into the current Drupal Twitter module which allows posting to a group Twitter via a Drupal web site. Which is great. But people should be able to post from their own Twitter account to a group or event account as you’ve done here.

I am getting the following error however: “Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach()”. I don’t think it is the same problem mentioned above because the file is on a server running Php 5.2.

Any ideas?

thanks,

Shai Gluskin

http://www.steveouting.com/group-twittering-instructions.html

One of the main things I read was getting auto-follow turned on by tech support.

The “json_decode” function is part of the standard PHP 5.2 install. Check it out on php.net.

Your programmer can either upgrade PHP, or write her own function to parse the JSON output from the Twitter API.

Hilary