Show HN: Remote control your digital life from Twitter

Re:Show HN: Remote control your digital life from Twitter by wut42 on Wednesday January 15, 2014 @08:40AM (#7063248)

This reminded me directly of some mIRC Scripts. For example, if you had to change your nick, instead of using the private command `/nick newnick`, the script will give you a command you can use publicly on the channel, like `!nick`. So everyone can know twice that you're changing your nick. Also people who was using theses scripts used to change nicks every time they do something (eating, sleeping, going to work, ...) — and I always hated that because it was adding too much useless noise to IRC.

Now... this tool seems quite similar. Controlling your life should happen in secret - I don't want to know when you want to turn on the bulb in your toilets, I don't care how much space you have in your dropbox, …. All theses things are private matter.

Twitter is already full of useless noise, don't add more...

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Re:Show HN: Remote control your digital life from Twitter by shaharsol on Wednesday January 15, 2014 @08:53AM (#7063296)

I kinda hear ya.

However - I always thought of twitter more as a communication protocol rather then a content app. I think twitter today is indeed already full of noise, and anyway there's no way to use it for content without curation tools.

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Re:Show HN: Remote control your digital life from Twitter by wut42 on Wednesday January 15, 2014 @09:18AM (#7063431)

Yes. Me too (hence the comparision with IRC/mIRC Scripts). However this kind of communication is just purely personal, I doubt anyone is interested in the fact that some friend wanted to know how full his dropbox was at some time in the day. Maybe the _result_ is interesting, but the trigger is not.

But if this works with direct messages, i'm buying it!

(edit: typos)

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Re:Show HN: Remote control your digital life from Twitter by shaharsol on Wednesday January 15, 2014 @09:22AM (#7063455)

I have an example in another comment of how I can buy stock with it:

CTRL @robinhoodapp buy $FB USD100

And then apart from making the transaction I can start convert with my followers about this deal. What do u think of such scenario?

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Re:Show HN: Remote control your digital life from Twitter by mvc on Wednesday January 15, 2014 @10:19AM (#7063739)

Sure! By all means advertise to the world that you're about to make a trade. The HFT folks will love that.

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Re:Show HN: Remote control your digital life from Twitter by wut42 on Wednesday January 15, 2014 @09:59AM (#7063651)

This example is cool— the trigger here is an useful information worth sharing. You need more of theses :)

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Re:Show HN: Remote control your digital life from Twitter by untog on Wednesday January 15, 2014 @10:14AM (#7063708)

Still though, surely all of this could be done over DMs?

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Re:Show HN: Remote control your digital life from Twitter by shaharsol on Wednesday January 15, 2014 @10:21AM (#7063750)

yes but i wanted to keep the language natural. and if you naturally want to address dropbox on twitter, then you "@dropbox" them, and not "DM @ctrltwit do something with dropbox".

moreover i realized best usecases are replies to tweets (like liking an instagram photo, subscribing to a youtube channel, saving to pocket), and those wouldn't have been possible with DMs

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