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Hey Y'all
I was wondering if anyone had an easy way to keep a crawl updated with tweets. Our current method involves two 20 page scene groups. We use Access Databases to compile the twitter lists. I have seen a way with n+1 in the datalinq increment, but this only seems to work with text files.

Basically I would like a crawl that loops with current content, then if we add new tweets, it slips it into the current cued position and populates after the tweet before it ends.

This might be a tough task, if not impossible, just wondering if anyone had any cool ideas that could help make this work.

Have you looked at XPression Connect? It is designed as a social media playout tool and has lots of nice features for driving crawls with tweets. It works with several social media providers, or can grab tweets directly from Twitter as well.


The stuff should work with Access Databases however you will probably have issues if you change the number of tweets in the database because after it has looped around in the dataset, if the number of rows in the database has changed it will get confused on where it is in the loop and you may get the same row played twice; or a row skipped. You could try it though and see how it works. Change the "row" field in your datalinq to , , in each subsequent scene. LEave the datalinq increment number set to "0". If you have trouble getting the N+1 working, post a sample scene and I will look at it.




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