This application lets any interested party (content provider) reserve some keywords and add automatic responses to tweets with this keyword. This article in our blog explains the main idea behind Twitter 411 mashup.
Above are some of our users' publicly available services. To receive the current contents of any of these
services, do the following:
1. follow to in your Twitter
2. send a direct message with the keyword (see above) to
This application lets any interested party (content provider) reserve some keywords and add automatic responses to tweets with this keyword.
For example all SMS based services let you send SMS started with some keyword to the service number and get back an automatic response. It is
the same but for Twitter. Service phone number is @t411. Content providers can reserve some keyword (keywords) and define an automatic response.
This response could be just a text (of course, it could be updated any time) or some URL to the external CGI script that will generate a response.
Content providers even do not need to have a Twitter account for that. Users can send DM (right now) or reply (will be) to @t411 started with a keyword
and get back an automatic response (as DM or reply status in t411). All in all this application lets create your own information server on the top of Twitter.
This article in our blog explains the main idea behind Twitter 411 mashup.
Above are some of our users' publicly available services. You can any time add (delete/update)
your own service.
For new service (see Add service button) just describe a keyword, service description (just a remark/explanation for the potential users)
and (of course!) your own reaction for the reserved keyword.
This reaction could be a static text (sure, you can update it any time later) or
an URL (some like
http://your_server/... etc.) points to your (or somebody else's) CGI-script (web application) responsible for getting (creating)
the response.
Our engine accepts direct messages to , parses the messages, gets the keyword, detects the service and returns back (as a direct message too)
the response. For the responses provided as URL's the engine requests the appropriate URL and returns back the response - we assume your CGI-script returns (prints) back a text.
Your CGI-script can accept the following parameters from the engine:
- text of the original direct message (request)
- name of twitter account in the request
In order to get the above-mentioned parameters just describe your URL (response) if the following form:
http://your_host/script?t=text&u=from
Symbols from and text will be replaced with the above mentioned values right before the request. See also a How to make a Twitter bot
article in our blog.
In order to use your service ask your clients do the following steps:
1. follow to in his/her Twitter
2. send a direct message with the keyword you've defined to
