On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 11:34 AM, Derek Gathright <drg...@gmail.com> wrote: > If you (or anyone else) is still looking for something, I have a bot that I > wrote a while back at twitter.com/dmreply. Just request to follow, I'll > approve, and then it will automatically forward any @replies to you via a > DM. Your account has to be public as it uses Twitter Search to retrieve the > tweets. Simple, requires no authentication info, unfollow at anytime to > turn off the service.
That's how I started, but then I realized that people I have blocked would be sent, and I have a (very) few followers whose updates are protected, and I wouldn't see there. Of course as soon as I finished this, I realized that what would be *better* for my use would actually be email notification of 'mentions', so that's what I'm working on now. The nice thing is that you're not bound to 140 characters in email, so I can also include what the message was in_reply_to (I have a few followers who @reply HOURS later and I often have no idea what they are referring to), and hopefully even a link to @reply back to them, including a proper in_reply_to also. > I remembered trying to do it back in the Track days, but tracking @derek > failed miserably as it dropped the @ and I instantly got swamped with tweets > mentioning "derek". Yeah, I'm thinking about using the search API for a "roll my own" "track" functionality too. TjL
