https://www.rostrum.blog/tags/twitter/ Recent content in Twitter on rostrum.blog Hugo -- gohugo.io en-gb Thu, 09 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2023/02/09/londonmapbotstodon/ Thu, 09 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2023/02/09/londonmapbotstodon/ tl;dr I’ve (finally) ported the londonmapbot Twitter bot to Mastodon. Like a mammoth rising from the ashes. TOOOOOOOT Twitter is burning to the ground, yada yada. For example, it appears that the free API tier will disappear soon. Soon like… today. Oh wait, maybe not yet?1 Cool customer communication, brah. Anyway, this news will obviously devastate contributors and fans of the mapbotverse Twitter list. You don’t know what the mapbotverse is? https://www.rostrum.blog/2022/07/22/mapbot-rtweet-v1/ Fri, 22 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2022/07/22/mapbot-rtweet-v1/ tl;dr Version 1.0 of the {rtweet} package has been released with breaking changes. I’ve updated the R script of londonmapbot so that its scheduled GitHub Action doesn’t fail. New hymn sheet I wrote a Twitter bot a while ago called londonmapbot. See the recent talk at LondonR or the blogpost about its inception. Basically, an R script runs on schedule via a GitHub Action. It generates a random point in Greater London and pulls a corresponding satellite image from MapBox. https://www.rostrum.blog/2022/02/12/mapbotr-londonr/ Sat, 12 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2022/02/12/mapbotr-londonr/ tl;dr I spoke at a LondonR hootenanny1 (in-person!) about how to create your own simple Twitter bot powered by GitHub Actions and {rtweet}, just like my @londonmapbot creation. The mapbotverse I created a Twitter bot called @londonmapbot. It uses the {rtweet} package by Mike Kearney to tweet out a random satellite image of Greater London via Mapbox, scheduled and executed by GitHub Actions. I’ve written about this before: https://www.rostrum.blog/2021/07/23/london-colour/ Fri, 23 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2021/07/23/london-colour/ tl;dr I used the {rtweet} and {magick} R packages to fetch tweets of random satellite images of London and then reduced each one to a single representative colour. Green/grey belt I created the @londonmapbot Twitter bot to tweet out satellite images of random points in Greater London. You can read earlier posts about how it was made and how I mapped the points interactively. I figured we could sample these to get to ‘the colours of London’, which can be mapped or tiled. https://www.rostrum.blog/2020/12/20/londonmapbot-leaflet/ Sun, 20 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2020/12/20/londonmapbot-leaflet/ Closest I’ve been to Leicester Square since the start of lockdown. tl;dr I recently made a Twitter bot with R, {rtweet}, MapBox and GitHub Actions – londonmapbot – that tweets images of random coordinates in London. I decided to explore them interactively by creating a simple {leaflet} map. You can jump directly to the map). The bot I built the londonmapbot Twitter bot as a fun little project to get to grips with GitHub Actions. https://www.rostrum.blog/2020/09/21/londonmapbot/ Mon, 21 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2020/09/21/londonmapbot/ tl;dr I made @londonmapbot: a simple Twitter bot that uses the R package {rtweet}, GitHub Actions and the Mapbox API. Find the source on Github. London from (socially-distant) space I’ve wanted to make a Twitter bot for a while, but it seemed like Hard Work. Spoiler: it’s not. So, I’ve made @londonmapbot: a completely unsophisticated proof-of-concept Twitter bot. What does it do? It posts a satellite image from random coordinates in Greater London (well, from a bounding box roughly within the M25 motorway) on schedule.