posted by on Jun 8
I have fast become a fan of Twitter over other social networking tools, however one thing I would just love to see is a Twitter setup for my local weather! Well the other day I happened upon this tool that pings Twitter using the provided PHP code as you see in the article.
The basic PHP code is fairly straight forward - a PHP script that pings a provided Twitter account with weather data for the given location. It’s actually a really great idea. Now if we could just kick it up a notch…
Implementing and advanced weather API.
What with the WeatherBug API contest going on right now,?? I figured it would be worthwhile to get some creative inspiration from this existing script and a developer could provide functionality for:
- Monitoring sudden wind gusts or temperature changes.
Or
- Monitor the WeatherBug Alerts API and send out regional alerts, live, as they happen to following Twitter users.
Now what might be needed is some sort of simple UI on a web page to customize the PHP script to be hosted elsewhere, by any given user. Basically provide a tool that takes an existing PHP script skeleton and then takes the given zip code and selected weather station, spits out custom code to be hosted on the end user’s own server to then ping Twitter as needed. It certainly could be interesting…
The fact of the matter is that there is a huge opportunity here. People already “follow” Twitter for changes in their network of friends, why not also allow them to also “follow” their local weather as well? Makes sense to me and creating such a thing is apparently, not all that difficult to do.
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Twitter Up Some Weather Data
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