Introducing Our TwitterBot, @WhoIsHosting
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The WhoIsHostingThis.com TwitterBot has just launched.
For those who unfamiliar with Twitter, it’s a microblogging service that lets users send 140 character messages to friends. Imagine a cross between Facebook status updates and your regular blog.
Twitterbots let you perform ‘command line’-style operations in Twitter. You typically send a message, and get back a response via direct message (DM) or an @reply with the information requested.
Some of the Twitterbots that have caught my imagination include music suggestions bot Recomme and Multimap’s ‘local services’ bot.
How to use the @WhoIsHosting bot? It’s simple.
Just send an @reply to @WhoIsHosting followed by a domain. A couple of minutes later, you’ll get a DM back with the answer and a link for more information.
If you don’t want to subject your followers to the lookup, you can send a DM to @WhoIsHosting instead using the same syntax (eg, DM WhoIsHosting yourdomainhere.com). Again, you’ll get a DM back pronto. It’ll look something like this…
It’s early days, so there may be the odd hiccup. Most issues to date have been with Twitter’s API limit (100 calls/hour), so please be patient if you don’t receive an immediate response.
We’d love to hear any feedback in the comments.
NikLP
January 19, 2009
Of course, the correct syntax for sending direct message is:
d recipient message
Richard
January 19, 2009
Nik, either works: D or DM.
Ravi
January 19, 2009
Nice, i like twitter, and u too….
ROSELI A. BAKAR
January 19, 2009
This is great tool to tweet about. Thanks !!
Umar Omeiza Nuhu
January 20, 2009
This is great achivement that i never expriences before
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January 25, 2009
just tweet about it 🙂
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