Using Twitter as a Simplified Message Distribution Platform (aka using Twitter how it was designed).
2009 March 29
In a nutshell, I can send short commands via DM to a Twitter account that is following me. On the servers I wish to control I have installed agents that monitor the Twitter account and listen for specific messages. Given a few priority and handling rules they can process and act on the message.
Lions and Tigers and patterns, oh my. Using the Twitter API to provide a Pub/Sub Channel with Twitter acting as a Message Bus.
Very cool! I was actually thinking about doing something like this at work for a project but that was about a year ago when twitter was always down so it didn’t seem like a wise move at the time.
“When twitter was always down”, how it different now than then? :-)