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Need to be able to generate some randomness into the tweets, they get flagged for being the same tweet over and over.

Also has to send some non-@replies, so it'd work better as a dual-purpose bot that does some other work too, I guess.




My problem with that explanation is that @StealthMountain and @DBZNappa both only ever tweet the same message, and to my knowledge both have been running for quite a while.


Yeah, I can't say 100% how accurate that information is. I've also made bots that do exactly what yours does, but different prompts/responses.

I was inspired by GloatingPig: https://twitter.com/GloatingPig

Anyway, in my research, those are some of the things I found, but I don't have citations. I think the @replies are the more important half of things, and I imagine those bigger ones get a pass because they're so popular.




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