{"id":1322,"date":"2014-12-05T17:59:01","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T22:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/?p=1322"},"modified":"2016-08-23T12:45:43","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T16:45:43","slug":"instant-tweetcontrols","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/2014\/12\/05\/instant-tweetcontrols\/","title":{"rendered":"Instant TweetControls #featurefriday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We spent some time enhancing our <a title=\"ThingSpeak TweetControl - Control Things with Twitter\" href=\"\" target=\"_blank\">TweetControl App<\/a>. TweetControl allows you to control things with Twitter. You setup a TweetControl to listen for a keyword mentioned on Twitter and we execute any web service API call that you specify. Developers have created racing cars, political campaign trackers, and we use it for the <a title=\"CheerLights - Control Lights Around the World with Twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cheerlights.com\" target=\"_blank\">CheerLights<\/a> project.<\/p>\n<p>As more and more users create TweetControls, the service started\u00a0slowing down. We have enhanced how the service works and now you get instant TweetControls!<\/p>\n<p>In an Instragram video sending a Tweet and changing the CheerLights color, you will see that there is little delay between sending the Tweet and executing the control command to change the colors on his Christmas tree.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about <a title=\"TweetControl Documentation\" href=\"\" target=\"_blank\">TweetControl<\/a> on <a title=\"ThingSpeak Documentation\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/help\/thingspeak\/\/\" target=\"_blank\">ThingSpeak Docs<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We spent some time enhancing our TweetControl App. TweetControl allows you to control things with Twitter. You setup a TweetControl to listen for a keyword mentioned on Twitter and we execute any web&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/2014\/12\/05\/instant-tweetcontrols\/\">read more >><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[141,187,60,23,81,31,98],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1322"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1910,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322\/revisions\/1910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}