Thanks Nathan. One other limiting factor, I think, is that Twitter will restrict messages to 140 characters. So it's ok for sending short status messages but no good for longer things.
On Jan 13, 1:17 pm, "Nathan Kennedy" <[email protected]> wrote: > Super Steve, > > Very interesting concept you have here, nice work. > > Your downside of 150 messages per hour may not be accurate, their API > document states: "Rate limiting only applies to methods that request > information with the HTTP GET command. API methods that use HTTP POST to > submit data to Twitter, such as statuses/update do not affect rate limits." > > They go on to say, though, that the 'daily updates and follower limits' > still apply. I think this ends up with a limit of 1,000 updates per day. > > More information here:http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Rate-limiting > > I've started using the Twitter Streaming API for a project which translates > the occurrences of keywords into real life actions (I'm a micro controller > geek also). Heaps of fun. > > Thanks, > Nathan. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > > Of Super Steve > Sent: Wednesday, 13 January 2010 12:35 p.m. > To: NZ PHP Users Group > Subject: [phpug] Using Twitter for Free Web to Txt Messages? > > I know there has been several people on here asking about how to send text > messages from a website and there were several answers. > > Lately I've been playing around with using Twitter and having tweets sent to > my phone. I got to thinking that this might be a way to have my website > send me txt messages for free. > > I've found lots of PHP code that sends a message to Twitter, and then I just > need to set up a Twitter account and link it to my phone and disable other > people from following that account. Free txt messages to me from my > website! > > Of course this is only any good if you want to send txt messages to just one > phone (or a limited number of phones); it won't allow you to send a txt > message to any phone. But I have several clients that are currently using > other methods to get their websites to send them txt messages (i.e. urgent > requests from their clients, etc). > > Has anyone else used Twitter in this manner? The only down-side I can see > if that there's a limit of 150 messages per hour.
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