Adnan`s Crazy Blogging World

If you have been reading me for last 4 or 5 years then you would remember that in 2006 I made an MSN bot service for Quran which uses to return ayah information after sending certain commands. The service got huge popularity Alhamdolillah but I had to shut it down because the service was an NT service requires Windows OS running 24 hrs a day. The service first hosted by my client cum friend in Canada then he had to shut down his machine then later it was hosted by FASTian living in Sweden. Unfortunately he could not keep it up either and now despite of 5000+ users,the service is dead.

Things were different at that time and now it’s changed. Now every one is running after Twitter which is a widely used micro-blogging tool which later was used as a marketing tool as well.

Few days back It came in my mind to make a similar bot for Twitter too. Luckily I did as well but for running such bot you need a scheduler/cron which can auto-tweet every second upon request. Due to my hosting limitation I could not set it up therefore I made changes and made it to run once in a day and tweet an ayah to the followers. I tested it yesterday and so far it’s working fine and now happily announce you to follow the following twitter ID:

When you will visit @thedailyquran on twitter, something like that will come up with the translation of some random verse of Quran

Since twitter only accepts only 140 chars,there are various verses which are more than 140 characters long,these verse are then tweeted in a little description and then a URL to read the entire verse. Bit.ly is being used for this purpose(If I get time I will publish technical details in my technical blog)

So here is a Ramadan gift for all Muslims or others who are addicted to twitter and wants to have tweets of Quranic verses daily. Let me tell you that this bot will tweet once a day any random ayah from Quran. The translation is authentic and checked by many. I am using Yousuf Ali’s translation which I used in MSN QURAN bot as well. So InshaAllah every morning you will be treated with an ayah on your twitter client.

If you like my efforts then remember me in prayers, more on that, spread this service to your fellows so that they can utilize twitter for better purpose. May Allah guide us all. Ameen.

p.s: As I said that I had almost finished the work for Quran bot on twitter similar to MSN but could not implement due to limitation, if any of you have a dedicated machine running php and MYSQL then he/she can happily borrow the code or allow me to implement the service so that something more fruitful could be given to Muslim Ummah. Contact me by leaving your comments and correct email address, I will surely get back to you.