[FRC Megaphone] Text Notifications/Automated Tweets for Robotics

[Zach O]

FRC Megaphone is a service to eliminate the question, "How is ### doing at their event?" With FRC Megaphone, you can get text message notifications to stay up to date with how your favorite teams are doing (or, to keep your mother update with how your team is doing). Additionally, you can connect your Twitter and we'll tweet the results of your matches.

A quick feature list of the site

Text Message Notifications
Forget spending time on FIRST's webpages to find out match results. Megaphone will keep you updated as to how your favorite team, Fantasy FIRST teams, or your team is doing at their events

Quick Sign Up
Give friends or family a quick and easy link to sign up to get only one team's notifications. Just register, confirm your phone number, and you're done. Quick register using the URL scheme http://www.frcmega.com/register/teamNumber

Automate your Twitter
Never forget to update your followers about a match. FRC Megaphone will automatically tweet after your team plays a match and let your followers know if you won, lost, or tied.

Customizable Tweets
Robots are cool, but not very personal. Give your automated tweets some personality by customizing them. You fill in what you want it to say, and we'll fill it in with data.


You can sign up for Megaphone now! Check it out over at

As always, I'd love to get some feedback. Let me know if you have feature requests, suggestions, or if you find a bug that I missed. Follow @FRCMega for any updates!

[dcarr]

Wow, this is excellent! I'm really impressed with this idea.

[Zach O]

Originally Posted by dcarr

Wow, this is excellent! I'm really impressed with this idea.

Thanks! It's built For My Mom™. I never had time to text her how our team was doing at competitions, and we never updated the Twitter because everyone was working. So I automated it.

[dcarr]

Originally Posted by Zach O

Thanks! It's built For My Mom™. I never had time to text her how our team was doing at competitions, and we never updated the Twitter because everyone was working. So I automated it.

Can't say I've had that particular problem...FRC is an all-family affair! But automating the team Twitter in this way is great, and tons of folks at our schools and at home will appreciate.

I keep getting an error whenever I try and verify the phone number.

[Zach O]

Originally Posted by Andrew Lawrence

I keep getting an error whenever I try and verify the phone number.

DM me with some more info. I can't seem to reproduce this error on my end.

[Iaquinto.Joe]

Could you add in a password reset page?

[Zach O]

Originally Posted by Iaquinto.Joe

Could you add in a password reset page?

Sure. Do you need that right now? If you do, DM me.

[Zach O]

Originally Posted by Andrew Lawrence

I keep getting an error whenever I try and verify the phone number.

I found your error. Looks like you didn't select a valid carrier. So it's trying to send a text message into the abyss. That'd break it... You can edit your cell provider in the Settings menu.

Originally Posted by Zach O

I found your error. Looks like you didn't select a valid carrier. So it's trying to send a text message into the abyss. That'd break it... You can edit your cell provider in the Settings menu.

Ah, that must've reset when I got the "re-enter your password" wrong while registering. I'll get that all fixed up. Thanks!

[ehochstein]

Awesome! I already love it. I had a big problem updating my twitter and sending texts out last year. This will be a HUGE help!

Can't seem to figure out how to add a second team though.

Is there a way to do this yet?

[Steven Donow]

Looks awesome! I love the idea of getting to automate post match tweeting.

[Zach O]

Originally Posted by Wiifi

Can't seem to figure out how to add a second team though.

Is there a way to do this yet?

You can only connect one Twitter per account. If you'd like to have another account specifically for sending out tweets, send me a DM and I'll help you with that.

I know Megaphone is meant for phones, but I check my email more than anything. Would it be a possibility to send updates to email addresses?

[Zach O]

Originally Posted by Andrew Lawrence

I know Megaphone is meant for phones, but I check my email more than anything. Would it be a possibility to send updates to email addresses?

Watch for it between Week 1 and Week 2