Euro 2008 Twitter bots
Soccer fan? Well my friend and fellow Viddler team member Kyle Slattery just released two bots for Twitter that you can follow to get both play-by-play and goal-only updates.
“Now you can get Euro 2008 right on Twitter. For every update from Soccernet’s GameCasts, just follow @euro2008cup, and if you only want to get updates about goals, follow @euro2008scores“
Simple. Slick.
The interesting, and perhaps the most compelling thing about creating a bot like this, is that you get SMS updates out of the box. Twitter has been calling themselves a “messaging platform” since day one, and developers like Kyle Slattery are using that to their advantage. I think this is a perfect use of Twitter.
Source: Follow Euro 2008 on Twitter by Kyle Slattery.
June 13th, 2008 at 9:40 am
Awesome, thanks for the link!
June 13th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
Sweet! Thanks Devroe! @leolaporte had one of the team reps from Portugal on earlier this week. a game just for Europe. Fascinating.
June 14th, 2008 at 2:24 am
Just a followup, I just added a new bot, @euro2008sms, which splits long updates across multiple tweets, for people following on their phones.
June 14th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
Cool Kyle, I’ve been watching all the games though, but I’m sure others will find it useful!