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ChirpBot Launches, offering on-demand content, games and more through Twitter

Posted: June 30th, 2009 | Author: dan | Filed under: Announcements | No Comments »

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New service allows users to access on-demand content, play games, and control web-based software through commands issued on Twitter.

Waterloo, Ont. – June 30, 2009 - ChirpBot, a free service that lets you issue commands through your computer or your phone using Twitter, launched in Beta form today. The service allows users to issue simple commands, called chirps, through the popular microblogging service Twitter.

Using ChirpBot, anyone with a Twitter account can:

  • Access several types of web-based content on demand, including weather, sports scores, stock quotes and daily horoscopes
  • Play text-based games (like Blackjack) through Twitter
  • Access and control web-based software through Twitter
  • Retrieve web-based information easily without the headaches of mobile browsing

At launch, ChirpBot will offer a sampling of services that includes:

  • Real-time sports scores for any MLB or NHL game
  • Local weather forecasts and conditions
  • Stock quotes for publicly traded companies
  • Daily horoscopes
  • Blackjack, a Twitter-based version of the popular card game
  • Dreamhost API commands. Use Twitter to access web hosting tools from this popular hosting provider.
  • Book search, a quick method for accessing Amazon.com search results on your mobile
  • Random quotes from classic literature

The ChirpBot team insists that this initial sampling is a mere fraction of what is to come. “We’ve got a long list of channels we intend to develop,” says Dan Skeen, President of Keyword Communications Group, the holding company for ChirpBot. “Some of them will really surprise people and show them what this service is capable of.” The team also looks forward to extending the ChirpBot service to the developer community through API tools and support, creating the first extensible platform for Twitter automation.

The company’s origin comes from a fairly simple concept, Skeen explains. “My co-founder was looking at the update area for Twitter,” he says. “Where others saw a simple text field he saw a command line.” Building on this principle, the team created ChirpBot.com and set up the service to issue commands using the API of a popular web hosting company, Dreamhost. “Suddenly, a simple tweet could reboot a web server, and that got us thinking about other possibilities,” Skeen says.

About the ChirpBot Team:

ChirpBot, based in Waterloo, Ontario, is the most comprehensive automation service for the Twitter platform available today. For more information on ChirpBot, visit ChirpBot.com or follow ChirpBot on Twitter.

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