[logback-dev] Twitter Appender?

[Ceki Gulcu]

Joern Huxhorn wrote:
> 
> On 05.08.2009, at 12:03, Ceki Gulcu wrote:

> Best of all, there's another application for the iPhone called Boxcar 
> [2] that pushes @replies, meaning that a message box pops up on the 
> phone and an (optional) sound (or vibration if muted) is played when a 
> reply is received.
> So it would probably make sense to send those messages as @replies to 
> users listed in the appender. This would reduce the number of available 
> characters, though.

Having your phone alert the user is well worth a character or two.

> Another way that I forgot would be a twitter account with a private 
> timeline. Those are not available for searching and can only @reply to 
> people that are following it. Following must be accepted by the account.
> I think this would be sufficient for most cases but something like a 
> CONFIDENTIAL marker does also make a lot of sense. This would simply be 
> configured "around" the appender, right?

I was not aware of private timelines. Good to know.

Around the appender? I am not sure what you mean, but among the
various data you pass to the appender, you could pass the name of the
marker (a String) that triggers confidential treatment.

>> The contents of the tweets could be formatted using a PatternLayout
>> similar to the way SMTPAppender formats the subject of the outgoing
>> email message.
> 
>>
>> How about building a prototype of TweeterAppender?

Since you submitted the idea, I was assuming that you were also
volunteering to do the implementation. Did I somehow misread your intentions?

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Ceki Gülcü
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