Announcing the Multimap Twitter Bot
June 20th, 2007
A number of Multimappers find twitter very interesting. For those of you who aren’t familiar, twitter is a service which describes itself as “a community of friends and strangers from around the world sending updates about moments in their lives.” (Twitter FAQ).
While it’s great to keep everybody up to date with those important things in life, we really got excited when twitter made some recent changes to its API. By combining it with our own Multimap API, we created something that we hope you’ll find very useful.
The Multimap twitter bot helps you to access the same maps, directions and local information that you find on multimap.com by simply sending direct messages via twitter. You can also find the closest wikipedia entries to a location and get directions to the closest wikipedia entry!
To try it out, you’ll first need to sign up for a twitter account, and then add our multimap twitter user as a friend. You can find out more information on how to do this, and how to use the twitter bot here, but for a quick start, try sending this message…
d multimap closest wikipedia to ec4a2dy
We’ve opened up a new forum, so feel free to try out the service, and let us know what you think.
Enjoy!
June 20th, 2007 at 10:40 pm
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June 21st, 2007 at 1:23 pm
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June 21st, 2007 at 9:35 pm
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June 25th, 2007 at 8:29 am
[...] With this in mind, I was excited to hear about Multimap’s new Twitter Bot. You can now query Multimap’s location data by sending a Twitter to their bot who talks to their own API and replies, for example:
d multimap nearest postoffice to reigate
reply:
direct from multimap: 1. Reigate, Bell Street, Reigate and Banstead, RH27BB
This is the most innovative thing to happen to LBS for quite some time. Its simple, cheap, effective and it works.[...]
June 25th, 2007 at 9:32 am
I’m sure this will come in handy for finding things whilst I’m out and about, nice one!
Twitter has set-up a feature to auto-friend friendly bots such as this thus saving the need to add the bot as a friend; instead it’s automatically addded when you contact it. For more info checkout the Twitter-dev mailing list on Google groups. http://tinyurl.com/2lv8sg
June 26th, 2007 at 8:25 pm
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June 27th, 2007 at 11:19 pm
Thanks for this convenience for road warriors like me. Added the tool to twitter tools list at
http://wtips.blogspot.com/2007/04/twitter-tools.html
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