GeekFit Podcast

Today we’re announcing a new feature to GeekFit, @geekfit the twitter bot. “Twitter? What’s twitter?” you say, well its a way of telling the world what your doing in 140 charecters or less. What Steve and I are doing with @geekfit – the twitter bot is sending a twitter post on our own accounts @jasontucker @mrxinu including “#geekfit” (sans quotes) somethere in the “tweet”. The @geekfit bot is constantly scanning for #geekfit in its friends tweets and then collecting them. Every 30 minutes he’ll “retweet” all the collected tweets so his friends can see them. His friends are our listeners. So now all of our listeners can see each others tweets even if they arn’t friends.

So what does this do for you? Well, Steve and I are tweeting about all the achievements we’re doing in health and fitness. Sometimes its a picture of what were eating, or a status update on our weight change. It really could be anything you want to share with the world. For instance I could say:

Went for a walk in the park at lunch, 2.5miles #geekfit

or something like

Wow, this sandwich is great, I gotta talk about it on the next #geekfit podcast.

The goal for this is that people can see what others are doing in the GeekFit community and can comment on other peoples actions. We call these pats on the back. We’re hoping if someone in the community tweets about something related to health and fitness and puts #geekfit in the tweet on twitter then someone will comment on that persons accomplishment.

Below are what some of the people have said including #geekfit in their twitter posts:

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