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Richard's Linux and E-learning blog: How to use Twitter as an error log

  • Dominik Jungowski · 9 months ago
    I don't really know if it's that good if the whole world can read your error log?
  • Dominik Jungowski · 9 months ago
    I was just told that you can declare a twitter feed as private, so just forget my comment ;)

    Nice idea definitely
  • Richard Bradshaw · 9 months ago
    Yeah - you'd want the twitter account to be private for good reason. Been using this for a few days now, and it's really good - going to set it up as a matter of course from now on.
  • xrado · 9 months ago
    hehe cool :)
  • Jens Schauder · 9 months ago
    Sounds dangerous to me. Is such a twitter feed private? Although they shouldn't error logs are prone to leeking sensitive information. It's bad enough if those show up in log files or e-mails, but I don't want to find them on twitter ... at least not from my applications ;-)
  • Jens Schauder · 9 months ago
    Sorry, didn't notice the other comments.

    Even if the thing is private, it is still on server I don't control ...
    Thanks, but thanks no
  • me · 9 months ago
    how useful can a 140 character error really be?
  • Tim · 9 months ago
    It's a nice idea, but I don't see the benefit over other notification methods, such as email to a distribution list. Email is just as instantaneous, can be sent to any number of people, is more controlled and can get more detailed feedback. Why would we want to use Twitter, apart from the novelty?
  • tweetrider · 9 months ago
    did anybody test it. i believe a direct message "d" can´t be send with this script
  • Richard Bradshaw · 9 months ago
    There is another API method for directs, though I found it worked fine using a d .
  • johannilsson · 9 months ago
    Nice idea, Just did this logger using zf components. http://gist.github.com/82394
  • kurokikaze · 9 months ago
    AFAIK, Twitter API have the limit of calls per hour. Are they big enough?
  • Richard Bradshaw · 9 months ago
    I'm only using it for mission critical errors, so hopefully!