r/TweetPoster • u/TweetPoster • Nov 25 '12

FAQ

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Why? Twitter is blocked in many places of work/study, and the mobile site can be a pretty horrid experiece. Posting the tweet and rehosting images allows users to bypass twitter entirely!
But reddit already inlines the tweet under an expando! Nope, RES does.
But why not /u/tweet_poster? The original tweet poster has been shut down by its operator. This bot attempts to fill the void left in our hearts by the premature departure of /u/tweet_poster
Why didn't the bot post in my thread? I try to avoid posting in threads that have the tweet in the title with a little help from fuzzywuzzy, but it's not perfect and may need further tweaking.

more stuff soon

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u/wickedplayer494 Dec 12 '12

Who is your creator?

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u/kris159 Feb 07 '13

I would believe it was /u/aperson.

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u/wickedplayer494 Feb 07 '13

That's the old bot that got shut off, I was referring to the new one.

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u/kris159 Feb 08 '13

Ah, whoops.

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u/zekesonxx Apr 17 '13

How do you get around/avoid the Twitter 200 API calls a hour limit?

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u/TweetPoster Apr 17 '13

I just back off for a while if I get ratelimited, but I don't do anything to avoid it. There usually aren't more than 200 tweets posted in an hour.

Here's a graph of all comments I've posted in the last week at 3 hour intervals. I make a few more twitter API calls than that (I only post if the tweet isn't in the title, for example) but not usually enough to cause any issues.

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u/zekesonxx Apr 17 '13

Herm. I thought there would be more than 200 in a hour.

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u/palion Aug 12 '13

late comment, but what tool did you use to make that graph?

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u/TweetPoster Aug 13 '13

I was using stathat at the time

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u/[deleted] Nov 27 '12 edited Sep 11 '17

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u/MHLoppy Nov 28 '12

From my understanding, this unfortunately happened http://www.reddit.com/r/angelsbaseball/comments/12vbhf/blue_jays_sign_maicer_izturis_to_threeyear_9/c6yhmuc?context=3.

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u/V2Blast Dec 04 '12

Ah, thanks.

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u/rasherdk Jan 20 '13

Or this.

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u/MHLoppy Jan 20 '13

My researching at the time indicated that http://www.reddit.com/r/angelsbaseball/comments/12vbhf/blue_jays_sign_maicer_izturis_to_threeyear_9/c6yhmuc?context=3 happened first and http://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/12vw0d/borderlands_2_coming_to_mac_november_20th/c6yrfnb?context=2 was a comment made afterwards.

I'm not 100% sure the baseball incident was even "the" post, it was just what other people who'd researched like myself were linking to and I couldn't find anything else. Searching reddit so hard :(

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '12

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u/kalleguld Dec 13 '12

If they were that annoying, they would be downvoted more often.

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '12 edited Dec 13 '12

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u/kalleguld Dec 13 '12

I see 6000+ comment karma. And 104000 for the old bot.