Bad idea jeans

[forgotten_aria]

Anyone who is more familiar with twitter know if they have an anti-bot clause in their terms of use?

I have a bad idea.

Comments

[bryant]

They do not.

[blk]

I have several friends who plan to use it for bot-related purposes, such as doorbell, dryer, or voicemail.

[avacon.livejournal.com]

I used zephyr for that in the past. I wonder what benefits twitter
would have over Jabber for that purpose?

[blk]

I would guess it depends on which you are more likely to get an immediate message from. I would love to have my doorbell send me a text message.

[binkbink.livejournal.com]

Do tell.

[avacon.livejournal.com]

Twitterclyde! (Not that I've used twitter...)

[forgotten-aria.livejournal.com]

That would be the (bad) idea.

[cos]

I've used twitter as part of a group notification system, where members of the group follow a central account that is updated by a script. It's the easiest way to set up text message notifications, since you just need one piece of code that can talk to twitter (I used Net::Twitter from CPAN) and you get get to any mobile network that twitter can talk to.