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In my last two posts (see here and here – or here for all my Twitter blogs) I outlined a few ideas I had for improving the twitter feeds that I have had running for about a year. The original idea was just to tweet every so often (about ten times a day), with each tweet being a random scientific publication. This worked pretty well but I thought that it might be more interesting/useful if I tweeted on a particular subject over a 24 hour period. That way, followers would only need to look at my twitter feed when I was tweeting on a subject of interest to them. In fact, they would not even need to follow me, they could just subscribe to the service and when I was tweeting about a subject they wanted to follow, they can do this, simply by using the search options on Twitter.

I have spent a few hours getting an initial implementation.

As it stands the system:

I am now welcoming people to register, in order to try and the system. I’ll class it as beta (just in case it all goes wrong!) but I’ll try to ensure that I don’t ask everybody to register again.

Of course, if you do use the system, I’d welcome any comments you have.

Like all these things, it is never finished and I have some things that I need/want to do.

In implementing this system, I have faced several challenges (such as how to register people, how to maintain a database, how to automate tweets). I will discuss some of these issues in later posts, as I am sure that other people face similar challenges and, perhaps (quite likely) I have not done things in the best way possible so I might be able to learn how to do something better.