{"id":666,"date":"2011-05-25T18:31:50","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T23:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/?p=666"},"modified":"2016-12-13T16:34:34","modified_gmt":"2016-12-13T21:34:34","slug":"tweetcontrol-control-anything-with-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/2011\/05\/25\/tweetcontrol-control-anything-with-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"TweetControl: Control Anything with Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are ready to release a new app for the ThingSpeak Platform! The new app is called <a title=\"Tweet Control App by ThingSpeak\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/documentation\/apps\/tweetcontrol\/\">TweetControl<\/a> &#8211; this app listens to Twitter for hashtags (#awesome) \u00a0and allows you to control anything that you can imagine. TweetControl is a mash up of \u00a0&#8220;The Internet of Things&#8221; and social networking. Now that Twitter has a Streaming API, we were able to build a scalable service to control anything in real-time via a social network.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine an &#8220;Easy Button&#8221; for Twitter. All you have to is Tweet a hashtag from your Twitter account to control anything that has a web service API.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/scharler\/statuses\/73458751583162368\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-660\" title=\"TweetControl Sample Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/15\/files\/2011\/05\/TweetControl_Sample.png\" alt=\"TweetControl Sample Tweet\" width=\"500\" height=\"144\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The applications for TweetControl are endless, and we are\u00a0excited\u00a0to see what you come up with. Check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/help\/thingspeak\/tweetcontrol-app.html\">documentation<\/a> for TweetControl to help you get started.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are ready to release a new app for the ThingSpeak Platform! The new app is called TweetControl &#8211; this app listens to Twitter for hashtags (#awesome) \u00a0and allows you to control anything that&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/2011\/05\/25\/tweetcontrol-control-anything-with-twitter\/\">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":[36,239,81,31],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666"}],"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=666"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2014,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions\/2014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}