Calling Drunken_F00l, STEAM and Twitter

**Snarf** · Dec 13, 2009, 09:50 PM

Currently looking up motivational pictures of cats.

**jwstohr** · Dec 13, 2009, 10:04 PM

Just saw season finale of Dexter and OMFG it was amazing.

**Snarf** · Dec 13, 2009, 11:31 PM

watching additional generic tv show that normal americans watch.

**OmegaZero_Alpha** · Dec 14, 2009, 01:13 AM

I just appealed for this thread to be locked.

**Drunken F00l** · Dec 14, 2009, 01:30 AM

Cool idea. One problem though is that the site does not update the contents of a player's backpack unless someone views it (and then only up to once per hour). So any twitter or facebook post would be delayed by that.

Changing it to constantly update a player's backpack could be an issue since there would be tons of requests. Maybe just people who opt-in to twitter automation? Even then, it would be a lot of requests.

**nicatronTg** · Dec 15, 2009, 12:10 AM

Originally Posted by Drunken_F00l

Cool idea. One problem though is that the site does not update the contents of a player's backpack unless someone views it (and then only up to once per hour). So any twitter or facebook post would be delayed by that.

Changing it to constantly update a player's backpack could be an issue since there would be tons of requests. Maybe just people who opt-in to twitter automation? Even then, it would be a lot of requests.

Opt in then every hour or so it updates the cache? That could work for a little while, or else you could make it cycle through at x minutes per group of users.

**Bigdog565** · Dec 15, 2009, 09:45 AM

but i dont think that facebook myspace or twitter could handle that or could they? it would probablly just make the sights slower for the people using it.

**Drunken F00l** · Dec 15, 2009, 01:04 PM

Originally Posted by nicatronTg

Opt in then every hour or so it updates the cache? That could work for a little while, or else you could make it cycle through at x minutes per group of users.

Yep, definitely something to keep in mind.

Originally Posted by Bigdog565

but i dont think that facebook myspace or twitter could handle that or could they?

Uhm? Those websites are a lot bigger and more popular than TF2items.com. I'm pretty sure they could handle the load...

**insomniaprincess** · Dec 24, 2009, 01:44 PM

Twitter API info for developers

I'm not much of a FB person so I can't say about that

(*Yes, I know I'm replying to an old post but I've sort of been away. -Happy Holidays!)

**-LMA-** · Jan 25, 2010, 06:13 PM

I like this idea, though if it doesn't get implemented, it's not too big of a deal.

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