[Xastir] added twitter capability with Xastir

[Eric K Germann]

Security through obscurity has never been a solid practice.

Postel's Law says: "Be conservative in what you do; be liberal in what you
accept from others."

If gating APRS uni-directionally TO twitter will bring down APRS, there
are bigger issues.

That being said, I find APRS->Twitter to be somewhat useful, with a layer
of abstraction in between

See http://twitter.com/vwwxnet


WX data is collected via APRS over RF, massaged and gated to Twitter
periodically.  Very useful to the non-ham who most likely would have a
hell of a time decoding

W8FY-10>APW284,W8FY-1,qAR,N1ICS-2:_06282017c306s025g025t082r000p055P014h53b10054wDVP

Shoot I do.

Hoaglin Twp House> 02:59PM EDT T:74F DP:47F H:39% P:30.07" W:3G13mph D:NNW
R:0.00/0.00/0.00 http://bit.ly/duldpo #vwwxnet


is a little more friendly.  (and no, same station, different times).

Even with that, cramming useful info in to 140 characters is a pain.  See
http://bit.ly/duldpo for what that "tweet" means.

Why do we care?  A lot more people have smartphones around here with a
Twitter client than have APRS enabled HT's (just guessing, but at least 34
of them).  And ANYONE ANYWHERE can follow it.

Twitter is a useful hammer if you define the nail correctly.  It is not,
however, a universal hammer.


Look closely and you will see Xastir in there also for Doppler screen caps.

EKG
N1ICS


On Tue, June 29, 2010 13:16, Curt, WE7U wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Jun 2010, Peter Gamache wrote:
>
>
>> Seriously, this is APRS-->Twitter, not the other way around.  It's a
>> novelty for one particular user to be able to update his Twitter account
>> from his APRS-enabled HT.  I think it's a nifty idea, if not exactly a
>> mainstream feature.
>>
>> It does NOT allow random (or even specific) tweets onto RF or APRS-IS.
>> If it did, I'd be up in arms, too, as twitter.com isn't known for
>> policing spammers very well, and that's the last thing we need.
>
> Another thing to be concerned about is popping our heads up above
> the noise level and getting shot at.  Our infrastructure is not bulletproof
> but I won't go into details 'cuz that would be shooting myself in the
> foot.  Hmmm...  Enough shooting references in there?
>
> If updating personal twitter accounts could cause non-hams to target
> the APRS infrastructure then I'm negative on the issue, else I'm neutral.
> I have no personal experience to go on.
>
>
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