Show HN: My weekend project: Play Zork on Twitter

[dgouldin]

In an homage to Andy Baio (http://waxy.org/2004/03/infocombot_for/), I've created a twitter bot wrapper for dumb frotz. To begin or restart a game of Zork, tweet "@playzork play zork".

The code powering it all is open sourced at:

https://github.com/dgouldin/twinfocom

Since twitter will not allow duplicate tweets, you can prefix your commands with any number of periods or delete your previous duplicate command tweet.

[dgouldin]

Aaand looks like I went over twitter's daily tweet limit. I didn't know that even existed. Its api says statuses/update is not rate limited. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted ... :)

[dgouldin]

The rate limit has been increased a bit but still remains. So, the bot is up for now, but it's not really a solution, just a temporary fix. Go get your nostalgia on while it lasts! ;)

[ChuckMcM]

Personally I think it was a cool hack, makes me wonder if there is an operations infrastructure idea in there somewhere. Tweet out to all your servers "hey get the latest update now." :-)