A project I've been working on watches Twitter for some search keywords, with the goal of finding new customers, jobs, items for sale, etc. For example, a computer repair shop might want to watch for the keywords "laptop" and "broken", and then reply to tweets where they think they can help.
But as anyone who uses [...]
This morning I came across a forum post containing a fairly large list of people I wanted to follow from one of my Twitter accounts. There are a lot of auto-follow tools out there, but most of them are spammy "viral marketing" nonsense, want to store my Twitter password on their servers and I don't [...]
First off, an apology to those who were annoyed all day today by Twitter spam: I'm sorry, I was asleep (I write better code at night) and didn't know what was going on until I woke up this evening. Not my favourite thing to wake up to!
I do a lot of freelance work with the [...]
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