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Twitter Baseball Scores via Python

Josh Kenzer — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 01:45:12 +0000

The MLB season is coming to an end, and I have to say I am pleasantly surprised at how well my Python XML to Twitter feed has worked. Except for a few hiccups at the beginning of the season, I never had to change, restart or deal with issues related to my Python script. The only major issue I didn’t deal with was double headers. On double headers, the final score from the first game kept tweeting out.

Here are how the five teams break out:

Diamondbacks – 87 followers, 4,949 updates
Giants – 104 followers, 5099 updates
Dodgers – 139 followers, 5,071 updates
Athletics – 67 followers, 5,252 updates

I didn’t promote any team in any way. I set up the Dbacks because I’m a Dbacks fan and wanted to keep up with games. I set up the Dodgers for my friend. I set up the Giants and A’s to see if I would get more Twitter followers from the bay area. I’m surprised at the relative evenness of followers. Obviously the A’s had a poor season and the Dodgers are in the NLCS, but those things considered they are pretty even.

I’m also surprised that teams that aren’t in the playoffs are still getting followers. I’ve only ever tweeted manually when I first set up each account. I do have an account setup for the Suns, but I’m not sure I will go much further. I could do all the teams in all the sports, but I’m sure that would get me shut down, and I really just wanted to get the Dbacks updates.

My del.icio.us bookmarks for May 13th through June 17th

Josh Kenzer — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:30:25 +0000

These are my links for May 13th through June 17th:

MediaPost Publications – Shift From Traditional To Online Media Contributing To Ad Economy Slowdown – 06/16/2008 – Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fpublications.mediapost.com%2Findex.cfm%3Ffuseaction%3DArticles.san%26s%3D84682%26Nid%3D43911%26p%3D321097
Application Flow Chart : CodeIgniter User Guide – A great diagram that could be used to describe any web development framework like Django, Rails, CakePHP, and the Zend Framework
Rands In Repose: We Travel in Tribes – Twitter is a social network, yes, but it?s a social network without the superpoke scrabtaculous zombie noise and, for that, I?m thankful, because I?ve got work to do. Yes, I could spend days tidying my profile and scrubbing my friends list, but to w
#6813 (Viva la bookmarklet – quick posting from around the web) – WordPress Trac – Trac – My Quick Post plugin getting implemented into Wordpress 2.6 core as Press It
The future of PHP –

My del.icio.us bookmarks for April 23rd through May 8th

Josh Kenzer — Fri, 09 May 2008 00:30:04 +0000

These are my links for April 23rd through May 8th:

Python Stuff –
Zappos.com Takes Twitter By Storm, Hosts San Francisco Party | –
RN&R > Local Stories > Surfing without > 04.24.08 – I’m quoted twice. Once as director of business development and the other time as a programmer. I like both titles!
Alert Thingy 1.3 Released: Single User Interface For Twitter And FriendFeed –
Ski Alpine Meadows – Client Blog
Do you want to become a great developer? – Fredrik Normén –

Twitter Changes Everything – Even Earthquakes

Josh Kenzer — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 23:44:35 +0000

Brilliant