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Labs - Tweet Munger - Custom Translations

Friday 22nd July 2011, 19:00

Along the lines of the original Tweet Munger project, this version of the Tweet Munger takes the Twitter feed from a specified user, translates it and then re-posts the results to a new twitter account. The difference with this version is that instead of using an external translation service, you can define your own translations.

An example of this is shown below, the latest three posts from @stephenfry on the left, and the latest three translated tweets from @stephenfrirate on the right:

It's easy to set up a new account, the code is available in Github with instructions for how to set it up. You'll need a server running PHP, and the ability to run crontab (unless you want to hit refresh every 10 minutes). I have created a set of Pirate translations, but it would be easy to add additional types...

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