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 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
