Some of you may have heard that Twitter is dropping support for one of the authentication methods that their API supports in favor of a new, more secure authentication system by June, 2010. IMified has always used the more secure OAuth authentication method to connect Twitter to your bot’s, so there won’t be an issues [...]
Have you been itching to try out Node.JS for a real-time communication app? Perhaps a voice application? Or a SMS or IM agent? Or a Twitter-bot? Did you read about our Node.js library for the Tropo Web API released back in October and think “That would be a cool way to learn Node.js!” But have [...]
If you are like me and looking to stay up on what’s happening out there in the land of HTML5, CSS3, etc., here’s one way you can do it… if you are ready for a veritable firehose worth of information. Just follow “html5guy” on Twitter: http://twitter.com/html5guy I’m guessing it’s a “retweet bot” of some type… [...]
If you want to scale your usage of Twitter and do more than just set up a “night service” (discussed in Part 1 and Part 1a), how about we create an app that triggers alerts based on keywords that appear in replies or mentions directed to your account? In our Developer Jam Session webinar last [...]
If you look closely at the code for nightservice.py that I mentioned yesterday in the post about 5 sample Twitter apps (and also posted the source code to Github), you’ll see that it is slightly different. Here was the original I wrote about back in May: from datetime import * answer() if datetime.now().hour not in [...]
Did you miss our Developer Jam Session yesterday, Serving the Social Customer: Scaling Your Support For Twitter, Facebook and More, where I spoke about building applications for social channels such as Twitter? If so, a recording of the webinar and the slides I used are now available from: http://blogs.voxeo.com/jamsessions/2010/11/ Additionally, all the source code for [...]
If you listened to yesterday’s Developer Jam Session, a good part of it discussed building Twitter apps on top of Tropo (slides are available). I’ve made the source code available from our Github account at: https://github.com/tropo/tropo-twitter-samples You are welcome to copy/paste that code into your own Tropo account and start building Twitter apps! (and Tropo [...]
If you were unable to attend yesterday’s Developer Jam Session, Serving the Social Customer: Scaling Your Support For Twitter, Facebook and More, the slides are now available as either a PDF from the Jam Session page or for direct viewing on SlideShare: Serving the Social Customer: Scaling Your Support For Twitter, Facebook and More View [...]
Are you building a Twitter application on top of Tropo? As a result of yesterday’s Developer Jam Session on building Twitter apps I know that a number of folks are trying it out… and one detail bears repeating when it comes to testing your app in development: Twitter rejects duplicate tweets! Where a “duplicate tweet” [...]
As outlined over on our Jam Session site, tomorrow at 11am US Eastern I will be speaking on the topic of “Serving the Social Customer: Scaling Your Use of Twitter, Facebook and More” In this free webinar I will be exploring the topic of how you can scale your interaction over Twitter. If you are [...]
