Twitter -> Tumblr

I’ve decided that I don’t want all my twitter updates to go into my beeplog, but I would like to keep the option open of posting a tweet that is worth putting on my tumblr. I thought there must be a way of tagging the tweets so that they will end up here, and turns out, there is!

Pipes

I used a Yahoo Pipe to get my tweets and filter out everything except ones with the hash tag (for me #beeplog). Then, grabbed the RSS feed for the pipe put set tumblr to import them here. Hopefully this should all work, waiting for tumblr to update my feed.. Zzzzz

Anyway you can get the yahoo pipe here.

If you put in your twitter username and preferred hashtag to use, click “get as rss” and copy that link into import feeds when customising your tumblr. Then the tweets with the specified hash tags should appear. I’m guessing you could fire the RSS into anything else that you would like to update. Have fun!

Twitter Radio.

This was created for the Live Performance Systems module last semester. It is an interactive installation which uses an old fashioned radio, to receive Twitter messages (or tweets). These tweets are organised into “stations” and using the radio, the user can “tune into” these spoken tweets. It uses an Arduino microcontroller to get the data from the tuning and volume dials, and a MaxMSP/Quartz program to receive the tweets, organise and speak the tweets.

Got featured on BBC and more!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/7921151.stm

http://beautifuldecay.com/2009/03/27/mark-mckeague-twitter-radio/

And so it begins…

Okay, I’ve started this thing so I should start to use it. Although my enthusiasm to design it went as far as picking colours.  I hope to fill this page up with mutterings of projects, videos, sounds, music, tweets and an assortment of things I come across. Mainly just so I remember what I’ve done. hurrah!

Getting started..

Going to sort this tumblr out good. Yes this is a test post.