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8th January 2009 - Link Blog

How we use IRC at Last.fm. With IRCCat, an elegant Java IRC bot that accepts Twitter-like messages to a network port (generally sent using netcat) and directs them to a user or channel.

Posted 8th January 2009 at 7:04 pm

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