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Coda Hale lives in Berkeley, CA, where he writes about Ruby on Rails, usability, web design and development, and the occasional bit about bicycles.

sfearthquakes = Twitter + Earthquakes

So, we’ve had some earthquakes in the SF Bay Area recently. Nothing big, but certainly big enough to prompt hundreds of Twitter users to chip in about the last earthquake.

So what did I do?

I went and wrote a Twitter bot to scrape the USGS website and post the results to Twitter.

Voila: sfearthquakes.

The best part? It’s hosted in Texas, so when the big one hits, it’ll still be able to chip in.

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2nd Mar 2007 1:44am 8 Programming Ruby and Rails