The Twitter News Trender Bot

Okay, so I gave in to my twitter addiction and now I've assigned a bot to give information from my news website to people while I'm away... The bot is @newstrends on twitter and you can use it to get trend information about whatever topic in the news you want

For instance, if you wanted the most recent subjects, most popularly associated with Obama, then you'd just @ reply my bot like...

@newstrends obama

...and then the bot will Direct Message you back with the trend information you requested. A list, from most related to least related of the top 10 subjects that show up in the same context or same article as Obama. You can use this with a comma delimited list too... and the bot will send you a message for everything in the list. You can also format it like a sentence and the bot will pull the subject matter out of your message and give you the related topics on the subject matter. For a full list of instructions click here.

All of this is almost real time... NewsBubbles brings in about 800 articles every 20 minutes or so from some of the top news corporations around the world. The newstrends bot pulls it's information from parsing those articles as they are coming in... then messaging you back when you ask it for a specific trend. Try it out.

Open to comments and suggestions for the bot if you want.

On twitter? Follow NewsTrends Bot