#74 New Twitter trigger - Lead Changed
It would be handy to have a Twitter trigger that can ping when the lead changes.
It would probably need a delay - possibly trigger 10 seconds after the points had been added? Or at the start of a jam?
Note: I'm NOT A JAVA PROGRAMMER. Feel free to ignore this.
If you had a variable that held the leader, and was checked every time a jam started, (as the scores should have stabilized by then) you could then set a twitter trigger, something like %leadchanged=true? Then update the lead variable so it won't trigger next time. This DOES mean it'll ping on the first jam of the bout, but is that such a terrible thing?
You could then have a tweet like 'Lead changed - %tn1: %ts1, %tn2: %ts2' - in a close game this could be pinging every couple of jams, but, again, is this so bad?
Discussion
Anonymous
Alternatively, this could use a threshhold- only report the lead changing if the point difference prior to the change was greater than a threshold, (say, 10), and it's not the first lead of the game.
I can implement this.