A Twitter Bot that grabs the comments displayed on the frontpages of leading Swiss news sites, makes a list of them all, and has the highly sophisticated robot com_expl tweet out the most commented piece here with the average of comments per article at exactly 0800, 1200, 1800 CET every day.
Sites that are currently considered:
- 20 Minuten
- Tages-Anzeiger
- [Watson] (http://www.watson.ch)
- [Blick] (http://www.blick.ch)
- 20 Minutes (These are considered separately)
Tweets for German language sites are posted at 800, 1200 and 1800 CET. Tweets for French language at 830, 1230, 1830 CET.
0.1
- Dealt with Tagi-Comment-Int-Problem
- Using the site's Twitter handles
0.2
- Added Blick
- Now calculates the total comments (over all the site Frontpages) and returns the percentage of the top story.
0.3
- Added 20minutes
- Added Tweets in French