Project idea: a twitter bot

[fmaussion]

Short description

There are plenty of awesome twitter bots around:

• Sentinel Bot https://twitter.com/Sentinel2Bot
• Landsat Bot https://twitter.com/LandsatBot
• Daily Glacier Bot: https://twitter.com/dailyglacier
• Hurricane Bot: https://twitter.com/TheHurricaneBot
• ...

Can we do one ourselves? Some ideas:

• tweeting the daily weather in Innsbruck
• tweeting glacier change on demand, i.e. when @ tagged

What will we need?

https://twitter.com/Sentinel2Bot as template. Some good knowledge of api dev

Who can help?

I'm not sure, but we can learn!

Team

• Member 1
• Member 2
• Member 3

[retostauffer]

Sounds like a nice small project. Once wrote one, relatively straight forward.

My thoughts on that: I think that there is no demand on flushing the internet with tweets like "Today, 10.1 degrees" - but it would be cool to push "extremes" or interesting weather situations. E.g.,

• "Yesterday was among the 30 coldest days over the past 20 years"
• "28 days without precipitation in Innsbruck: 9 days left to break the current record."
• "Fasten your wig! 95.3 km/h wind gusts in Innsbruck which only happens 5 times a year!"

This would require some basic statistics based on historical observations (station climatology). And keep track of sent messages (lock events) not to tweet the same thing over and over again within few hours :).

[fmaussion]

See https://github.com/stefanstoeckl/ACINN_twitter_bot for an outcome!