Posts Tagged ‘Twitter’
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Tuesday, February 15th, 2011Scaling Your Twitter Support, Part 2: Triggering Alerts on Keywords
Thursday, December 9th, 2010Scaling Your Twitter Support, Part 1a: Tweaking the “Night Service” app a wee bit
Thursday, December 2nd, 2010
If you look closely at the code for nightservice.py that I mentioned yesterday in the post about 5 sample Twitter apps (and also posted the source code to Github), you’ll see that it is slightly different. Here was the original I wrote about back in May:
Want to play with building Twitter apps on Tropo? Here’s source code for 5 sample apps.
Wednesday, December 1st, 2010
If you listened to yesterday’s Developer Jam Session, a good part of it discussed building Twitter apps on top of Tropo (slides are available). I’ve made the source code available from our Github account at: (more…)
Reminder: Beware of Duplicate Tweets When Testing Twitter Apps on Tropo
Wednesday, December 1st, 2010
Are you building a Twitter application on top of Tropo? As a result of yesterday’s Developer Jam Session on building Twitter apps I know that a number of folks are trying it out… and one detail bears repeating when it comes to testing your app in development: (more…)
Get Notified When Someone Mentions You on Twitter
Tuesday, November 9th, 2010Please note, Twitter & IM support have been deprecated, as per this blogpost. Please direct any questions or concerns to support@tropo.com.
New Tropo Powered Startup – VivaGrams!
Monday, October 25th, 2010
Tropo was a proud Gold-level sponsor of Startup Weekend Phoenix this weekend. Chris Matthieu was onsite participating in the event and was able to work hands-on with the team behind Marc Chung and Natalie Melchiorre’s brainchild idea, VivaGrams.com.
How to build an automated Twitter bot using JavaScript and Tropo
Friday, August 13th, 2010We’re back with more how-to goodness! While perusing our relatively extensive blogging history and existing documentation, we noticed the previous examples showing how to link Twitter and Tropo were moderately complex and potentially daunting, especially for someone just trying to get an initial feel for how it works. So, in an attempt to remedy that, we endeavored to provide an easy, all-inclusive example from start to finish. Hopefully we succeeded.
Scaling Your Twitter Support, Part 1: Adding a “Night Service” via Tropo.com
Friday, May 7th, 2010
What do you do if your use of Twitter for customer interaction is wildly successful? How do you scale your support for using Twitter for customer service, customer support or other topics? Do you hire a bunch of extra people? like Staples did? Or do you look at using tools and services to help your existing staff through automation and/or augmentation of the staff’s efforts?
Tropo and the Upcoming Twitter API Change
Monday, May 3rd, 2010
Following up on IMIfied’s post on the upcoming Twitter API changes, Tropo will not be impacted since we only support OAuth for authentication with Twitter. Therefore when Twitter shuts off their HTTP Authentication at the end of May 2010, you do not have to change anything for your Tropo apps using Twitter.

