Comments on: TWITTER: Who wants to build Twitterbots.com?

By: Prakash

Prakash — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 09:04:33 +0000

Hi!

We would love to design and develop this. Checkout http://www.winitsoftware.com to see what we do and the work we have done. We have just launched our first online venture http://www.my22yards.com and this could be a good second one.

Please let me know if this interests you.

Prakash

By: Ozh

Ozh — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 07:26:41 +0000

very cool idea, i’m really looking forward to seeing such a website. I’m a really late joiner on twitter stuffs (like, one week:) but I’m getting seriously hooked.
On a side note, the park page on twitterbots.com (all those “links”) is, from what I’ve been told, the best thing you can give to make sure you’re google sandboxed for long. A simple “coming soon” is probably better

By: Matthew Reinbold

Matthew Reinbold — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 05:18:20 +0000

With a PHP/MySQL server, why not just grab some open source Pligg code (PHP Digg clone) and go to town? It sounds like its got a lot of the ranking/commenting features that you already mentioned.

Of course Pligg is beta software. If that’s a concern why not go to Ning and have a site up in minutes? Sure, you’ll need a designer to douse Techquila Shots over the prefab but it sure would be a heck of a lot easier to get up and running, maintain, and expand because there’s a community behind the scenes that has done (or is doing) most of the work.

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 01:55:32 +0000

I bought ‘cooltwitterstuff.com’ and started to piece some stuff together with different categories, etc. I’m not a designer, so it is not visually stunning.

I started adding different categories but quickly got tired of adding ‘Here is another Twitter Widget that lets you add Tweets and read your timeline…’ so I’m waiting a bit till I work with it anymore. I actually wanted to get twitterbots.com, but looks like you grabbed it one day before me.

Anyways, I would be interested in working on this project.

By: Michael Wales

Michael Wales — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 01:02:44 +0000

Sandeep – I’ll be shooting you an email and see if we can collaborate on this idea. It’s a pretty simple concept, from a programming standpoint.

By: Sandeep

Sandeep — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 00:27:11 +0000

Sorry, let me just clarify, I’m not personally interested in creating and running a twitter related website. However I am very much interested in helping to design one (the layout, the images, videos, visuals etc.). If someone is looking to take this as a serious project and they are in need of a designer, feel free to email me.

Thanks.

By: Sandeep

Sandeep — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 00:24:29 +0000

I would definitely be interested in designing for this project. Feel free to check out v8design.net and email me.

By: Bob Costello

Bob Costello — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 23:37:30 +0000

Steve,

That is a great “get” on the domain name. Would likely have been gone in another day or two.

I think the site sounds like a great idea. However I do not have the time to dedicate to setting it up, managing etc., I would certainly want to post any twitter bot I created there.

Besides allowing comments on submitted bots, I’d recommend a user ranking (i.e. most popular, most downloaded, etc.) if you had not already thought of that.

A last thought, possibly some validation/testing or other criteria for bot submittal. Maybe a simple test run to ensure the bot functions as described before public posting.

Well one last quick thought – a twitter dating bot – for meeting people in your local area. (Don’t let my wife know I suggested this!!)