Emergent game on twitter

I've been approached by a local artist working on emergent game «Σ». I've built another bot, which uses the twitter api to search for twitterers located in the emergent game, then uses the XMPP interface to make a private account follow them.

Then we chuck the 'with friends' feed through a yahoo pipe, for two reasons.

I'm pretty sure twitter needs you to be authenticated to see the 'with friends' feed. Yahoo pipes has a 'private string' object, so we can (safely?) embed a username and password in the feed url.

If (when) there's a parsing error in the bot, the yahoo pipe can filter the private accounts own updates, so we effectively get a 'just friends' feed.

Which gets displayed on the game blog thus.