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Re: Ask HN: What do you think of our new app? FutureTweets.com

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Whoops! Haven't thought of that... you mean they have a limit on their API use? Might have to build in a schedule-tweet-maximum then...

I think the API limit is once per limit per account. So if an account has multiple tools accessing the API, it is easy to overschedule. I would put a sanity check in both your update rate and the amount you let people schedule. Don't become a twitter-DOS scheduling system :)

Good idea... Thanks!

Re: Ask HN: What do you think of our new app? FutureTweets.com

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post #12

"have an alibi..." ...that ends in "sent from Future Tweets."

You can actually turn that off. It's a preference on your account settings page, and you can override that per scheduled tweet... :)

Interesting. So what does it say when you override it? "From web"? Isn't that hard to accomplish via API?

Re: Ask HN: What do you think of our new app? FutureTweets.com

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Aw. Just based on the title, I thought it was an app that lets you guess possible future tweets, and alerts you when anyone actually tweets your guess. That could be fun too :)

Haha that's pretty cool as well! Like an automated Twitter guessing game! :)

Re: Ask HN: What do you think of our new app? FutureTweets.com

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Didn't know Sendible... looks like they've taken the concept to the max. Interesting! Thanks for the link

Don't let the existence of sedible discourage you. They are too wide in focus, while you are smaller in focus and you have a better chance of getting more tweeter users than sendible.

I agree. They have less than 9K registered users so far. I bet theres a whole lot of ppl who want to schedule thier tweats. Your strong point is that you do it only for twitter.

Re: Ask HN: What do you think of our new app? FutureTweets.com

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post #12

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You can actually turn that off. It's a preference on your account settings page, and you can override that per scheduled tweet... :)

Interesting. So what does it say when you override it? "From web"? Isn't that hard to accomplish via API?

It indeed says "From web", which is the standard if you don't provide a source parameter to the API. So it's not that hard :)
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