Comments on: Twammer, sending stuff from Twitter to Yammer

By: Steven Johnson

Steven Johnson — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:26:15 +0000

You can enable your yammer account to post your tweets from twitter. Than you only need to add the #yam hashtag to your tweets and they will be posted. No seperate application is needed. Under the “edit profile” option their is a field titled “Twitter username”. Click the “learn more about Twitter integration” URL next to this field to learn more.

By: Kris Getchell

Kris Getchell — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:45:21 +0000

This is a great idea. I look after an ePrints repository and we found it useful to send out Twitter alerts when the repository was updated. Being able to feed these into Yammer is great! Thanks for the app

By: Duncan

Duncan — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 00:16:30 +0000

@Andrew, the quick answer is you can’t. This script was designed to be run via cron, as twitter has no callback facility I’m aware of.

By: Andrew Chambers

Andrew Chambers — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 22:21:28 +0000

Yes but how do I do this as an ordinary user? I can’t run cron jobs…

By: Akhil Bansal

Akhil Bansal — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 08:37:26 +0000

Exactly what I am looking for

Thanks a lot

By: Julian Elve

Julian Elve — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 09:54:27 +0000

Hi Duncan

Don’t think ping.fm allows filtering. The custom triggers are defined to post to a subset of your sites, and accessed by a keyword in the post

regards

Julian

By: Julian Elve

Julian Elve — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 22:03:10 +0000

@Duncan

Don’t think it lets you filter, but it allows you to define a keyword that selectsd a subset of your defined networks to post to.

By: Duncan

Duncan — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 20:17:43 +0000

@Julian: I hadn’t seen this, although I don’t have a ping.fm account. Do you know if you can indeed customise the trigger to filter the message content to your choosing?

As an aside, I need to adapt the script as I have found out that Twitter let you make calls like this:

http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline.json?count=1

Which is much better than parsing the RSS feed. Just need 5 mins spare to do it

By: Julian

Julian — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:13:38 +0000

Hi Duncan

Love the idea, and credit to you for making it work.

Thought about copying and adapting for own use, but found the custom trigger function on ping.fm which feels more useful to me – did you examine that first, or have they only just released it?

regards

Julian

By: Duncan

Duncan — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:39:44 +0000

@daniel: Thanks for the comment, but I don't agree. I have things I want to mention to my friends who don't work for the BBC, that would also be helpful to people at the BBC. Like I mention in the post, sites like ping.fm push everything to Yammer. This is what I did not want. This app will only post things of my choosing. Also, anything too BBC specific I would post manually to Yammer. As an aside, Twitter is only really a public thing if you choose to make it so.