[Tutor] Responding Tweet: A Twitter Bot

2014-02-20 Thread Zaki Akhmad
Hello, I am trying to create a twitter bot which respond mentions as soon as possible. Here's the detail. If @someone mention my account @example then in t seconds I would respond @someone tweet. I am hoping to get this t less than 60 seconds. I would utilize the Mike Verdone twitter API python[

Re: [Tutor] constructing semi-arbitrary functions

2014-02-20 Thread spir
On 02/20/2014 01:56 AM, "André Walker-Loud " wrote: On Feb 19, 2014, at 7:45 PM, André Walker-Loud wrote: OK - I have not seen an email from Peter. So I looked up the thread online, and see I did not receive half the emails on this thread :O My first inclination was to blame my mac mavericks

Re: [Tutor] Responding Tweet: A Twitter Bot

2014-02-20 Thread Alan Gauld
On 20/02/14 08:23, Zaki Akhmad wrote: I am trying to create a twitter bot which respond mentions as soon as possible. Here's the detail. These have been around for a long time in email circles. One thing to watch is detection of cycles. That's where someone tweets you and you auto-respond, B

Re: [Tutor] Responding Tweet: A Twitter Bot

2014-02-20 Thread Zaki Akhmad
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 7:39 PM, James Scholes wrote: > Most decent Python libraries for accessing Twitter support the streaming > API. This lets you keep a connection to the Twitter API alive and > process new data as it is received. There is a simple (but out-of-date) > example on using strea

Re: [Tutor] Responding Tweet: A Twitter Bot

2014-02-20 Thread Dave Angel
Zaki Akhmad Wrote in message: > On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 7:39 PM, James Scholes wrote: > >> Most decent Python libraries for accessing Twitter support the streaming >> API. This lets you keep a connection to the Twitter API alive and >> process new data as it is received. There is a simple (bu