UPDATE (9 may) - check The death of the semi colon to see the new improved simpler marker structure (basically, just ignore the : in the examples below)
Currently, to add your data to datatoy.net via twitter you need to use a few markers in your tweets. For example, to register your 2 pints of stella on a friday night you need to tweet:
*beer :2 stella !in the globe
Now obviously it would be better, and more enjoyable for your followers, to simply tweet:
Enjoying a couple of pints of Stella at the Globe
That’ll work sometime soon when the parsing routines get more reliable. But for now - in order to play with the tables and charts monitoring your training or drinking via your usual twitter client just add a * before the collection and a : before the entry. A few examples:
*bike :10Km !windy track your cycle training
*visa :32 amazon !mainly CDs track your spending and get pie chart breakdowns
*visa ?total check your total spend on your visa
*coffee :starbucks !latte monitor that caffeine intake
*lunchwith :jane keep track of your sociable dining
We’ll continue to obey these markers even when the natural language parser is better so you can be 100% sure we’ll catch your data.
Remember to make sure @datatoy is following you before tweeting stuff!