Ask HN: Urgent connection to Twitter support • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Urgent connection to Twitter support

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Post by tenken » Tue, Jul 08, 2014, 10:55 PM UTC

just respect the usage limits like any other service being provided for you for free.

Re: Ask HN: Urgent connection to Twitter support

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jul 08, 2014, 10:57 PM UTC

devilsdevil wrote: post #26

This is horrible. But you can be sure if the US were launching missles and a Twitter feed were used to warn the targets then the owner of the account would be an enemy of the state. War is horrible. The internet brings us all closer to it. But you are basically asking an American corporation to supply a war effort with ammunition to your side.

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Re: Ask HN: Urgent connection to Twitter support

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Post by bhartzer » Tue, Jul 08, 2014, 11:00 PM UTC

Not sure if it will help, but I've contact a few Twitter folks I know and alerted them to this thread.

Re: Ask HN: Urgent connection to Twitter support

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jul 08, 2014, 11:01 PM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: Urgent connection to Twitter support

#45

Post by stephenitis » Tue, Jul 08, 2014, 11:03 PM UTC

Is HN the new emergency technical support now? I thought twitter would have a redphone to handle request like these...

Re: Ask HN: Urgent connection to Twitter support

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Post by yuvadam » Tue, Jul 08, 2014, 11:03 PM UTC

Success! Twitter @support just got back to me with news that the rate limits have been increased!

HN, you are awesome!

Re: Ask HN: Urgent connection to Twitter support

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Post by pron » Tue, Jul 08, 2014, 11:05 PM UTC

anigbrowl wrote: post #16

I'm curious, is this service service equally available/relevant to civilians on both sides of the conflict, or only one? I don't ask to be judgmental, I recognize that politically/legally it may not even be possible to serve both sides. I just wondered if the automated nature of the service allows for it to be apolitical.

Such a service could well be apolitical, but @rotternews is an extreme right wing news organization by Israeli standards.

Re: Ask HN: Urgent connection to Twitter support

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jul 08, 2014, 11:05 PM UTC

yuvadam wrote: post #24

bilal2206 wrote: post #15

Is your twitter feed informing about the bombs falling on Gaza? (no sarcasm) A link to the twitter feed? Thanks.

It does, but only based on second-hand reports. See my additional response on the sibling thread.

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Re: Ask HN: Urgent connection to Twitter support

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Post by joshfraser » Tue, Jul 08, 2014, 11:08 PM UTC

Here's a link to the Google Translated feed for @rotternews. (I used the mobile version due to formatting issues w/ the standard version)

https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&...

Re: Ask HN: Urgent connection to Twitter support

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Post by raverbashing » Tue, Jul 08, 2014, 11:12 PM UTC

yuvadam wrote: post #37

raverbashing wrote: post #36

Maybe you should think about putting up an rss feed, or throttling yourself the information posted to kind of sum them up in the meantime

Good suggestion. An RSS feed sort of exists already, and twitter is just a better vehicle to deliver these alerts. We could try to throttle ourselves, and better filter e.g. duplicates, that is true.

I think if the focus is mobile you can try setting up a very lightweight page with the latest events (with a cache in front, something that is updated every 1min or maybe 5min should be enough)