Okay, you know how the Wel­ling­tonista have a twit­ter account that you can sign up to in order to receive updates to your phone about what’s going on in the city? Yeah, I sup­pose I should be the first per­son to admit that does­n’t go so well. You see, des­pite the fact that all Wel­ling­tonis­tas know the login and pass­word for it, there are only a small hand­ful of us who use Twit­ter, and all of us there­fore have our phones con­figured with our per­son­al accounts, which means any updates to the Wel­ling­tonista Twit­ter have to come from online, which means we’re tied down to a com­puter.

Well, clev­er people have come up with solu­tions to let every­one use their own per­son­al accounts to update one main twit­ter. I first exper­i­enced this at Web­stock, with the Web­stock Twit­ter bot which ran hot dur­ing the con­fer­ence. Now there’s the Free Wel­ling­ton account, which will send you updates on things to do for free or under $10 in Wel­ling­ton. But here’s the trick: you can update it too. Just fol­low FreeWel­ling­ton on twit­ter, and pre­face your updates with an FW, and every­one will be able to know what the water­’s like at the beach, or why they should be stay­ing the hell away from Wait­angi Park…

It’s a geni­us scheme. Now we’re just hop­ing that the Wel­ling­tonista will get a bot of its very own for Xmas!