Twitterbot

I'm seriously out of control

Introduction

The Twitterbot is something I wrote to feed Google News to twitter that makes use of RSS.NET and the very basic twitter API to grab the latest (new) items from the feeds specified in the feeds file, and post them to their respective twitter-things. Twitterbot is written in C#, and can be run on any platform without problems using Mono. If you want to build the Twitterbot from scratch, you'll need to use NAnt to build it, or just figure out the command line parameters for the Mono C# compiler. As a side note, please run your Twitterbots with reasonably long intervals (15-30 minutes) to prevent spamming the public timeline. More info can be found in this blog post about Twitterbot

Licensing

The original author of Twitterbot has licensed the code under the BSD license.

Download

The Twitterbot code can be checked out from our anonymous subversion repository via the web interface by merely calling:

svn co svn://svn.geekisp.com/bleep/trunk/Twitterbot