Show HN: I open-sourced my Twitter Automation platform

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Post by zackproser » Fri, Aug 25, 2017, 5:07 PM UTC

Show HN: I open-sourced my Twitter Automation platform
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Re: Show HN: I open-sourced my Twitter Automation platform

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Post by sutble » Fri, Aug 25, 2017, 8:46 PM UTC

This is incredible. How many avatars did you have running at one time using the costly overhead approach?

Re: Show HN: I open-sourced my Twitter Automation platform

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Post by zackproser » Fri, Aug 25, 2017, 10:54 PM UTC

sutble wrote: post #2

This is incredible. How many avatars did you have running at one time using the costly overhead approach?

Thanks! The most I have run simultaneously on one Linux box was around 12. I think you could push that to 20 on a small VM.

Re: Show HN: I open-sourced my Twitter Automation platform

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Post by profuse99 » Sat, Aug 26, 2017, 11:33 AM UTC

Very cool thanks for sharing!

Interesting this isn't gaining more interest.

Also interesting how you could extend this with serverless architecture to be unkillable and massively scalable

Re: Show HN: I open-sourced my Twitter Automation platform

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Post by zackproser » Sat, Aug 26, 2017, 5:18 PM UTC

profuse99 wrote: post #4

Very cool thanks for sharing! Interesting this isn't gaining more interest. Also interesting how you could extend this with serverless architecture to be unkillable and massively scalable

Sure thing! Serverless architecture is an interesting thought.

I didn't include this in my write up but I figured out a few tricks for generating as many Twitter accounts as you want (their current safeguards against this are not very strong).

I think adding some components that auto generated accounts in addition to something like lambda would make this theoretically limitless in the number of accounts it could run.

I'll leave it for those who have interest in working that out.