June 13th, 2008
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. Â Twitter has been calling themselves a “messaging platform” since day one, and developers like Kyle Slattery are using that to their advantage. Â I think this is a perfect use of Twitter.
Source: Follow Euro 2008 on Twitter by Kyle Slattery.
Awesome, thanks for the link!
Sweet! Thanks Devroe! @leolaporte had one of the team reps from Portugal on earlier this week. a game just for Europe. Fascinating.
Just a followup, I just added a new bot, @euro2008sms, which splits long updates across multiple tweets, for people following on their phones.
Cool Kyle, I’ve been watching all the games though, but I’m sure others will find it useful!
If you want to take a look on a bot which provides the scores for the main football (soccer) competitions, check http://twitter.com/twitscores