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Gas Prices Twitter Bot

I've setup a Twitter bot to post lowest regular gas prices in our area (Weatherford, Clinton, Elk City, Sayre). It will look like this in the Twitter feed:

Weatherford - Reg. $3.50 @ Phillips 66 1401 N Airport Rd as of 05/04/08 12:16 http://tinyurl.com/6xogbn

Now all that's left is to figure out when to have the Twitter bot run. Below you'll find a poll with suggested times. Note I already have a Weather bot running at noon and 5:00pm, and a Events bot running at 8:00am.

What Time to Have Gas Prices Twitter Bot to Run? ( surveys)

UPDATE 5/7/08: Not even a few days after getting it to work, the GasBot is down. The RSS feeds I was using to get the latest gas prices have been pulled down by Motortrend.com. I'm looking for another source to see if I can get this working again. - K.

Comments

Anonymous said
on Monday, May 05, 2008, 8:48:37 AM
Gas stations usually update their gas prices mid day so that people who waited until after work to fill up pay the higher price.

K. said
on Wednesday, May 07, 2008, 5:09:19 PM
Well I need to find another solution for the Gas Bot. Motortrend pulled their RSS feed for gas prices down. Shame too. I was so happy to get the bot working the first time. Well off to new things. - K.