I’ve found myself on the wrong end of some meaty tube delays over the past few days. So much so that I signed myself up for TFL’s free tube updates, which proceeded to get themselves eaten by my spam barrier at random, arrive when I was already on my way home, and would only tell me about some very specific routes if they did arrive in time to be of any use.
And so, with the fiery passion of a man who’s wasted too much life on crowded tube platforms, I took matters into my own hands and created THE TUBINATOR!. Every 15 minutes, old tubey updates twitter with any tube lines that aren’t quite up to scratch at the time. It doesn’t do planned outages, which I’m assuming people have already noticed, but it does cover the DLR. Us South-East Londoners are people too, dammit.
Go ahead and say ‘Hi’ to THE TUBINATOR!.
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March 26th, 2008 at 5:24 pm[...] More twitter goodness Posted in Uncategorized by jerichokb on March 26th, 2008 This one’s for Londoners: follow the tubinator for updates one which tube lines are currently playing up (updated every 15minutes). However, the short form of tweets means messages can be cut off, as in the current “Broken tubes: Circle (Part suspended), District (Part suspended), East London (Bus service), Hammersmith” - surely removing the ‘Broken tubes:’ bit would be sensible, as you’re reading the status for a reason. I might message the guy who created it; it appears to have surfaced earlier this month. [...]
jerichokb
March 26th, 2008 at 5:32 pmGreat idea - but needs a little refinement. Twitter’s only a short form and tube line names are long, especially a problem when several have problems. Any way of making it more succinct and not letting it cut off would be brilliant! (e.g. “Broken tubes: Circle (Part suspended), District (Part suspended), East London (Bus service), Hammersmith” is the current - what’s up with Hammersmith?)