TwittBot is a service that allows multiple people to publish to a single Twitter account, and for a single person to post to multiple Twitter accounts.
Bots can be marked as “open” (anyone can post to the bot) or “closed” (only a select list can post the group).
Check out @popwreckoning, @coffeelinks, or twitter a reply to @twittbottest to see how it works. If you twitter a reply, you should see it republished on the @twittbottest page within 10 minutes.
TwittBot allows fine control over who can and can’t post to your bot. Instead of relying on who you’ve followed, TwittBot lets you follow as many people as you’d like, but still control who gets to post to your bot.
I’m aware of all the issues and working on a fix, but the service will be down until at least Noon Central Time on Wednesday, April 14, 2009. Sorry for the delay!
Posted On: April 14, 2009We’ve placed a fix in production and everything is running smoothy again. Sorry about that. Twitter has a fantastic API but aren’t great about non-breaking changes and notification of upcoming changes….
We’ve identified a pesky bug that’s been with us for a month or so: posts to new bots not showing. The root cause was a miscalculation in Daylight Savings time, and the bug has been fixed.
Additionally, Twitter decided to change the API on us without warning on Monday. The change affected how Twitter processed replies. [...]
We’ve just put in an upgrade that changes the following:
Fixes a bug for bot check frequency on new bot accounts. Prior to this (and since the last update), new bots were taking up to 45 minutes to update. Now, they should update within 4 minutes.
Increases stability in the bot check process.
These 2 updates should fix [...]
We’ve just put in a patch that will allow for dynamically-updated bot frequencies, based on when your bot was last used. This patch will increase performance for busier bots by decreasing the frequency of checking for unused or seldom-used bots.
If your bot is used daily, you will see your updates faster.
Here is the schedule:
Last Post [...]
Over the last week, TwittBot has grown a bit unreliable in publishing updates.
The root cause was determined and a fix was placed into production about 30 minutes ago. This fix should prevent this…
According to this post over at Twitter Status, several Twitter accounts were hacked (in the Twitter databases).
If you change your Twitter password, be sure to log into TwittBot and change your password in our settings so that your bots will continue to republish entries.
