Inspired by how Launchpad posts bugs to twitter via an atom feed using TwitterFeed, I set up a twitter account for the Sugar Labs trac instance: Follow https://twitter.com/sugarbugs to see new bugs posted.
Due to rate limiting of a maximum of five updates in 30 minutes, it won’t show every bug logged during a busy period, but it gives a nice real-time notification of new bugs on trac.
Now I see TwitterFeed supports identi.ca too, so I’ve added the feed to http://identi.ca/sugarbugs as well.
Feed - the whole site
I have no idea about the technical possibility, but why not update twitter through an interface who will perform some sort of rate limiting on the outgoing updates ?
Not like an update every 6 minutes, but more with a volume of update in a floating buffer and some logic to hold the exceeding updates.
Of course, knowing exactly how twitter is computing the “5 updates in half an hour” who greatly help.
My 2 cents :)
Philippe, it’s certainly possible… it’s TwitterFeed imposing the rate limiting here, and what it provides isn’t rocket science so it could easily be reimplemented – but it’s free and quick :)