Match Results via Twitter

FIRST General Forum
1

http://www.thebluealliance.net/images/banner_small.png

The Blue Alliance
Video Tutorials | Match Video Archives | Facebook Group | Forums

**Match Results via Twitter
Instant Gratification
**

I’ve been doing a little bit of work on how The Blue Alliance imports match results, and now each match gets posted to Twitter upon it’s entry in The Blue Alliance database! If you are a twitter user, you can follow TheBlueAlliance and get all your match update goodness that way! Every match from every official event will be posted.

http://twitter.com/thebluealliance

Enjoy!

2

LOL

177, 999, 157 lost to 173,** 237, 237** [46 to 72] in Qualifications 74 at Connecticut Regional

We’re so good, we play with 2 robots at a time apparently… :smiley:

Testing the system with fake alliances are we Greg or have we found a bug already? :stuck_out_tongue:

3

I was updating my twitter with happenings during the Boston regional. I’ll try to do it again for ATL.
http://twitter.com/jeffrodriguez

4

Yeah, I noticed.

I had to stop my text message subscribtion to you, you were so out of control with those updates! (even after Boston) :stuck_out_tongue:

5

That was a bug. I was doing Blue2 twice instead of Blue2 and Blue3. Thanks!

6

This idea is great and I want to use it, but unfortunately my text messages are limited. I was wondering if you can set up 4 separate accounts for each field(Archimedes, Curie, Galileo, and Newton) at the Nationals so I don’t have to look through my 50-message limited in-box to find my team or other teams I like to see.

Keep it up but keep it simple! XD

Thanks,

Josh S.

7

Stay tuned. :wink:

8

This gives me the opportunity to say something I have been meaning to for a while, a personal THANK YOU to all the folks over at The Blue Alliance. As someone who has been torn away from New England FIRST it was great to be able to watch BAE, CT, and Boston finals in the archives. The ability to click on a team and get all of their matches is also a really sweet feature.

As far as the twitter service, good stuff!! I was wondering how long it would take someone to do it and I should have guessed who it would be :wink: I’m already a follower and will be watching during Nats, which I can’t make it to this year either. Also thanks to those providing their own color commentary on twitter, you know who you are, and if anyone else out there will be twittering FIRST post if you want an additional follower :wink:

Thanks Everyone. Good luck to all in Hotlanta!!

-Justin

9

And we’re live!

http://twitter.com/thebluealliance