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I'm sure it exists, but SMS of specific twitter keywords in a stream. Example, the police here tweet about accidents/delays on the roads, and I don't want every one of their tweets, but it would be nice to only get the ones that are for road xyz

Not since the advent of twilio.com.

I would like to know when friends are online, for example on skype.

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