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

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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/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/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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