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](https://twitter.com/frcmega) for any updates!
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 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.
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.
Zach,
This is the coolest $*&@&$ thing ever. I’m always trying to keep tabs on my friends and how they’re doing. I’m sick of refreshing the FRC event pages.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
-John
PS - I feel like you could get some fun data about who is following who, and which teams are most followed, and some such…
PPS - I bet Zondag could somehow use that data to prove Michigan is awesome.
Thanks JVN! I plan on putting together a blog post with cool data like that once the season is over.
Correct. I was using Google Voice but I hit my API limit wayyyy too quickly. There’s several texting services that will let you send texts for $0.01 a piece, but that adds up really quickly. So to keep it free I’m using email to send text messages.
Like I said, I should be able to set up email notifications for Week 2. But I’m volunteering this weekend at Kettering, so I couldn’t possibly promise it’d get done before matches on Friday.
