Twitter as a message bus.

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Yes, yes, reliability, I know, I know.* Hence the use of the word bus and not queue, everyone knows you wait ages for a bus and then they turn up three at a time.

 

But, inspired by this (london bridge twitters when it opens, and includes the name of the boat) I thought it would be pretty cool to build a little app that sits on my home PC (I mean Mac) and looks out for tweets from me.* That way I can find out, by sending a quick tweet, how many mails I have waiting, I could tell it to download something for me (in case I am on my iPhone) and could get notifications back based on the success or failure.

 

I've only just started but I've got the basics in place, and it should be pretty flexibuble, but ...

 

..to get to the point, twitter is pretty flaky, and I don't want to set up my own server so apart from Twitter and Pownce, any other services of a similar natures that have a little more uptime?

 

Oh, and any more ideas for what I could automate at home through twitter would be welcome ;)

 

Oh. Jodrell bank twitters too...

 

 

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