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Heh, I once wrote a piece of software that would read World of Warcraft's memory space, scan for the chat circular buffer and then post new guild chat messages to twitter.

At first my guild mates loved it - but then it created some guild internal drama as some "officers" were having a rather not nice chat about other guild members in the night and they thought they were alone.

Pretty much destroyed my guild. But at least I could finally say "What have I done!" and mean it ;)

Out of curiosity, were you an officer? The idea that private officer chat might be sent to just any guild member's client is hilarious.

Do you have the source or a video in action? This sounds hilarious.

Oh man, this is gold. Seconded, I've gotta see a video.

I'm not really sure if it's within the rules of the game, so there will probably be no video, but I'll probably github the source soon. It's Node based, but some of the dependencies are a pain to set up.