This week’s Monday Mumble has been kind of stuck due to a technical problem.
The Idea: I have set up a MumbaiTraffic twitter channel to which people send in updates based on their traffic experiences. For example, if you are driving to town and notice a large procession at Mahim Junction - you could leave a message saying "Avoid Mahim Junction, take back road to Bandra". To start with you will have to send in all messages to the channel by putting a "@mumbaitraffic" in your messages.
The Problem: Currently, I haven’t figured out on how all messages which are going to be "@replies" for MumbaiTraffic can be displayed to all other users and get re-tweeted to followers.
My Attempt: I tried taking the RSS feed of the Replies and passing it through the Yahoo! pipes - Twitter Reply sniffer but the date/time format don’t seem to match and the process fails when I pass the RSS from the Yahoo! pipes through twitterfeed.com
Other Suggestions: Another recommendation was to set-up a bot and run it from a server, but I can’t do that currently due to limited bandwidth. So if you have a server where this can be set-up would be happy to get some help.
If you have any other ideas, please do let me have your thoughts in the comments and I’ll be sure to give you a credit when this gets active.
4 responses so far ↓
1 Госдуму беспокоит влияние перевода часов на здоровье граждан - NewsProm.Ru // Apr 1, 2008 at 8:10 am
[...] Monday Mumble: Mumbai traffic twitter updates [...]
2 Chetan Thaker // Apr 1, 2008 at 10:16 am
Awesome ! Waiting for it to start. You should get a LOT of updates from me
3 Aalaap // Apr 3, 2008 at 11:35 am
Done. Let’s put this baby online.
4 Santosh P // Apr 6, 2008 at 5:57 am
how much bandwidth are you looking for? may be I would be of your help.
Btw I found u following aalap. I am also into advertising, publicity.. Just a start.. currently freelancing..
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