Myth Twitter Account

[Codex]

I think a good way to find new players could be to write a Twitter bot that tweeted match results.

This would take a lot of imagination as well as programming skills but it would be accomplished by learning from the source code of other Twitter bots. The main difference between this bot and similar ones is it would have to gather information from this page here http://gateofstorms.net/games. If this worked the twitter account could accumulate a lot of followers which could regenerate active players.

Anyway it's a pretty crazy idea but if anyone likes it I will start working on it (mostly for fun).
-Codex

[jason_ac]

Interesting. And then we re-Tweet it saying stuff like "Holy $#!&, did you see that game?!? #MythMassacre"

[Codex]

Yes we could even get a tag trending like #mythcarnage or something. I don't know - strange things tend to become known because of twitter especially indie stuff. If it sparked it could fix the problem about there being few new players.

[jason_ac]

Tweet pre-existing, cool Youtube videos too. Even old MWC videos and say "remember this incredible finish from blah blah blah"

[vinylrake]

I think a good way to find new players could be to write a Twitter bot that tweeted match results.

This would take a lot of imagination as well as programming skills but it would be accomplished by learning from the source code of other Twitter bots. The main difference between this bot and similar ones is it would have to gather information from this page here http://gateofstorms.net/games. If this worked the twitter account could accumulate a lot of followers which could regenerate active players.

Anyway it's a pretty crazy idea but if anyone likes it I will start working on it (mostly for fun).
-Codex

Admittedly not a huge twitter groupie, but why would tweets of random match results be popular?

As for the coding, tweetbots themselves are a relatively simple thing to create - you can write them in pretty much any modern programming language. You just need the documentation from Twitter about how to use their API to tweet to an account you have access to.

If PunkUser has an XML or RSS feed of the latest match results you could just use that and avoid having to skim/parse through the page itself.


Oh - and twitter isn't (or wasn't) crazy about twitterbots last I checked - there's (or at least there was) a daily limit for # of tweets. It's probably changed as that was a few years ago, but assuming they still have a limit you'd need some logic to either determine which match results to tweet or how often you want to tweet - if you do the interval thing you could just set it to tweet the latest match results every 30 min or whatever time period you choose. Keep track of the previous tweet so you don't duplicate tweets.

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