I Made a Self-Quoting Tweet
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I Made a Self-Quoting Tweet
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#2Previously (2018):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16978913
Previously (2009): https://twitter.com/selfrefer/status/3128391843 https://twitter.com/spoonhenge/status/2878871344 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=743144
(last 2 were self-referential at the time, but then twitter changed the rules for linking; I recalled seeing these at the time)
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#3Interesting, I wondered if the same can be done on hn. Likely easier since the IDs appear to be sequential. But one can simply edit their post to point to the URL too if they wanted, so it defeats the fun of the exercise.
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#4Interesting, I wondered if the same can be done on hn. Likely easier since the IDs appear to be sequential. But one can simply edit their post to point to the URL too if they wanted, so it defeats the fun of the exercise.
On a related note, from 2012: “Show HN: This up votes itself” https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3742902
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#5> And for anyone at Twitter who was depending on the network of tweets being a Directed Acyclic Graph, I'm so terribly sorry.
I love the idea that there's someone out there with code that resolves retweet chains recursively, who's about to be in for a great head scratcher of a bug.
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#6Congratulations! I tried a similar approach based on the original attempt at this challenge (https://www.spinellis.gr/blog/20090805/), but gave up after running it for a few hours.
Very cool that you were able to achieve this. I'd thought it was impossible while using the original method given how many more tweets there are now then in 2009.
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#7My personal fave. https://twitter.com/SarnatsPointer/status/253602578695344128
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#8Posted at 4:20 PM :)
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#9> And for anyone at Twitter who was depending on the network of tweets being a Directed Acyclic Graph, I'm so terribly sorry. I love the idea that there's someone out there with code that resolves retweet chains recursively, who's about to be in for a great head scratcher of a bug.
They will have to reckon with the fifty thousand-long chain at https://twitter.com/every_peano
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#10My personal fave. https://twitter.com/SarnatsPointer/status/253602578695344128
I think I'm missing a tweet of context. I get that they quoted their own url, like in the top article, but then the account replies "Ugh, busted :(" to someone who has their tweets protected.