The SF Bay Area sometimes gets earthquakes, so Coda Hale wrote a Twitter bot that scrapes the USGS website and notifies you via Twitter (that is, if you didn’t already feel it firsthand).
Categories: Announcements, Science
Bots are special Twitter users that provide you with information, either by request or whenever it becomes available.
Auto-Reply To use these bots, you must send them a direct message, upon which they will reply with the information requested.
Announcements Adding these bots as friends will provide you with up-to-date information on a given subject.
Note: All bots require that you add them as your friend prior to using.
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