Today we’re announcing a new feature to GeekFit, @geekfit the twitter bot. “Twitter? What’s twitter?” you say, well its a way of telling the world what your doing in 140 charecters or less. What Steve and I are doing with @geekfit - the twitter bot is sending a twitter post on our own accounts @jasontucker & @mrxinu including “#geekfit” (sans quotes) somewhere in the “tweet”. The @geekfit bot is constantly scanning for #geekfit in its friends tweets and then collecting them. Every 30 minutes he’ll “retweet” or repost all the collected tweets so his friends can see them. Mind you his friends are our listeners, people like you. So now all of our listeners can see each others tweets geekfit related tweets even if they aren’t friends… yet.

So what does this do for you? Well, Steve and I are tweeting about all the achievements we’re doing in health and fitness. Sometimes its a picture of what were eating, or a status update on our weight change. It really could be anything you want to share with the world. For instance I could say:

“Went for a walk in the park at lunch, 2.5miles #geekfit”

or something like

“Wow, this sandwich is great, I gotta talk about it on the next #geekfit podcast.”

The goal for this is that people can see what others are doing in the GeekFit community and can comment on other peoples actions. We call these pats on the back. We’re hoping if someone in the community tweets about something related to health and fitness and puts #geekfit in the tweet on twitter then someone will comment on that persons accomplishment.

So what do you do now? First get a twitter account by going to http://twitter.com if you already have one Go follow geekfit on twitter then make your first posting using the #geekfit tag.

Below are what some of the people have said including #geekfit in their twitter posts: