DM the bot to retweet message
Rob
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I have the following twitter account. @santacruztweets I want to create a community posting bot. When someone sends a direct message to @santacruztweets the message will be reposted by santacruztweets.
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2 Posted by Rob on 02 Apr, 2009 03:56 AM
I guess the main difference between this and the current DM bot is that this would allow for all people you are following to post to the account.
Support Staff 3 Posted by Josh Owens on 06 Apr, 2009 03:21 PM
So you want a checkbox to say "Allow anyone to retweet"?
4 Posted by Rob on 06 Apr, 2009 04:18 PM
No just anyone but anyone that I am following. In order to prevent spam.
5 Posted by adamstac on 06 Apr, 2009 05:09 PM
I think in this case we'd have to track the user's followers right Josh?
6 Posted by Rob on 07 Apr, 2009 06:40 PM
Here is a script that sparked this idea. They use the script at the bottom of this post to retweet all @ messages.
http://smr.absono.us/2008/04/anatomy-of-a-twitter-bot/
They are using it on the account @lotd
If it uses DM instead then a pretty cool semi-moderated posting community can be created
Support Staff 7 Posted by Josh Owens on 09 Apr, 2009 01:24 PM
Adam: we don't have to track the user's followers, Direct Messages inherently assume you are following them.
8 Posted by whitneymcn on 01 May, 2009 08:06 PM
Rob: that's actually the model that @vctips (a descendant of @lotd) uses (I put both of them together back in the dark ages). If you've already got a bot that retweets based on @replies it's a straightforward change to make it repost for d messages instead.
9 Posted by shoq on 01 May, 2009 08:56 PM
So what's the deal? I tried a test about 20 minutes ago. No posts to my bot. If this doesn't work just now, could you post that?
Support Staff 10 Posted by Josh Owens on 03 May, 2009 07:39 PM
Shoq,
The bots are working fine and have been working fine for well over a week without slow down. What the original post is asking for hasn't been implemented (an allow anyone to DM-tweet).
We are still considering the original posters message/feature suggestion.
11 Posted by scott on 04 May, 2009 12:00 PM
I would really like this feature (tweet all DM's)
scott
Support Staff 12 Posted by Paolo Miguel on 08 Feb, 2011 06:08 AM
Hi Everyone,
We're in the process of cleaning up old tickets. We're still considering "allow anyone to DM-tweet" as one of the additional features to add. I will now be closing the ticket. Please open a new ticket should you have any other suggestion.
We appreciate all your suggestions. Thanks!
Paolo
Paolo Miguel closed this discussion on 08 Feb, 2011 06:08 AM.