Revision: 979
Author: andy
Date: 2009-07-26 04:07:13 +0000 (Sun, 26 Jul 2009)
ViewCVS: https://svn.bitfolk.com/view/?rev=979&view=rev
Log Message:
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blurb
Modified Paths:
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twitfolk/trunk/README
Modified: twitfolk/trunk/README
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--- twitfolk/trunk/README 2009-07-26 03:05:55 UTC (rev 978)
+++ twitfolk/trunk/README 2009-07-26 04:07:13 UTC (rev 979)
@@ -4,9 +4,24 @@
Overview
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-Gate the tweets/dents from a twitter/identi.ca account's list of friends into
-an IRC channel.
+Gate the tweets/dents from a Twitter or Identi.ca account's list of friends
+into an IRC channel.
+History
+-------
+
+Some people in an IRC channel started noticing that conversations kept crossing
+over between IRC and Twitter, so they talked about gating each other's tweets
+into the channel:
+
+ http://wiki.blitzed.org/Channel:bitfolk/Twitter_Bot
+
+Eventually someone quickly knocked a bot together:
+
+ http://wiki.blitzed.org/Channel:bitfolk/Twitfolk
+
+Then a couple of other channels started using it.
+
Pre-requisites
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@@ -21,6 +36,13 @@
- A twitter.com or identi.ca account
+Source
+------
+
+You can get it from our Subversion repository:
+
+ https://svn.bitfolk.com/repos/twitfolk/
+
Support
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@@ -28,13 +50,15 @@
https://lists.bitfolk.com/mailman/listinfo/twitfolk
+Feature suggestions would be great, too.
+
You can follow TwitFolk development on Identi.ca:
http://identi.ca/twitfolk
which is also gated to Twitter:
- http://twitter.com/therealtwifolk
+ http://twitter.com/therealtwitfolk
(The "twitfolk" username was already taken on Twitter; if you own it and want
to give it up, please let us know!)
