…he just doesn’t know it. But, hey, he responded to a Twitter post by one of the @PredFans participants! Oh, and if you didn’t know, he’s a HUGE New Jersey Devils fan and a pretty active Twitter user.
For those who do not know about @PredFans and ReTweetBot, it’s my little programming baby and the brain-child of fellow Predators fan Paul Nicholson (@pwnicholson on Twitter). The concept is pretty simple, it’s a bot that Paul conceived and I coded into reality that creates a common-interest community on Twitter proxied by a single Twitter account. I’ll use @PredFans as an example: Paul, myself, and a few hundred other Predators fans on Twitter follow a single account, @PredFans. The @PredFans bot looks for any @replies or direct messages sent to it and re-posts the @reply or direct message under the @PredFans account using “username: their twitter message #plus #some #hashtags”. If you go to the @PredFans page on Twitter, you can see it in action.
So, here are some screenshots of the tweets I’m talking about (clicky for linky):
There’s more about our ReTweetBot and how it works from a user perspective here.
May I have your autograph?