WV Tweets Launches.
Posted in Uncategorized on February 27th, 2009 by McNeelyFor months I have been toying around with the idea of setting up a web site to help promote twitter in WV. Many communities have sprung up on twitter fostering things such as tweetups like we have here in Charleston. I wanted to create a site that allowed other twitters in their area to follow.
I purchased a domain sometime back but until Sunday night I had not done anything with it. In a little under a week I managed to pull the initial site together from scratch. The hardest part was working around twitters API which was designed more for clients and not for the site. All told I probably spent less then 24 hours total programming the entire thing and creates the logo and design only yesterday.
This current site is just the beginning. Very soon I plan to start working on a method of scheduling/promoting tweetups from the site as well as features. Check it out: www.wvtweets.com.
If you have a twitter account that you’d like to have add to the site, just message or DM me (McNeely) and I’ll add you to the bot. If the bot (wvtweets) is already following you and you’re not showing up it is either because you have set your tweets as protected or you don’t have a valid location set, "Charleston, WV" and "Charleston West Virgina" are both valid examples as they have both city and state set. A lot of Smaller locales have not been added yet and I plan to add a generic category for users with statewide locations.