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filter | Filter the message out and don't put it in your mailbox | filter |
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resend | Resend the message to all your followers regardless of their characteristics | resend | It will only be put in your followers timeline if it is not already there. | ||
mailto: email | Send the body of the message to the email recipient |
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http:// server | Does an HTTP(S) POST of the message on a server with certain headers set | http://user:password@twitterpassword@identi.comca/api/statuses/update.xml
| Enter HTTP POST data on a new line; %s expands to original message, %u expands to user nickname, %i expands to image URL, %w expands to user's full (mnemonic: w hole) name (first + last) | ||
atom: url:// | Posts the new entries from Atom/RSS feed | atom: http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/esmeproject.atom | Bots can also post to ESME, but polling from ESME is more secure and robust |
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Test | Action | Description | Similar to |
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follow | mailto: mail | Sends mail when followed by any user | Twitter sends messages on follow |
unfollow | mailto: mail | Sends mail when unfollowed by a user | Qwitter helps track who is unfollowing you |
profile | http:// server | Sends HTTP POST when the profile is changed | @chinposin on Twitter tracks your avatar change to chinposin.com |
every 5 mins | rss: http://blog.esme.us/feed/rss | Updates new posts from the ESME blog | twitterfeed posts your blog titles to Twitter |
login | resend | Notifies your followers when you log in | Yammer notifies when a user logs in for the first time |
#twitter & @me | http://user:password@twitter.com/statuses/update.xml
| Posts all messages tagged #twitter to Twitter | Identi.ca integrates with Twitter by reposting messages |
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Be careful, tests for the actions might apply to more messages than you think. For example, the tag filter applies not only to your messages, but also ones from people you're following. In the action above which posts to Twitter, if you forget to restrict the author, you might flood the twitter timeline with messages you didn't intend to post. |
Additional Links
There are many lists of ad-hoc Twitter third-party tools, some of which might be assembled in ESME using actions.
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