In an homage to Andy Baio (http://waxy.org/2004/03/infocombot_for/), I've created a twitter bot wrapper for dumb frotz. To begin or restart a game of Zork, tweet "@playzork play zork".<p>The code powering it all is open sourced at:<p>https://github.com/dgouldin/twinfocom<p>Since twitter will not allow duplicate tweets, you can prefix your commands with any number of periods or delete your previous duplicate command tweet.
Aaand looks like I went over twitter's daily tweet limit. I didn't know that even existed. Its api says statuses/update is not rate limited. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted ... :)
Personally I think it was a cool hack, makes me wonder if there is an operations infrastructure idea in there somewhere. Tweet out to all your servers "hey get the latest update now." :-)