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I Made a Self-Quoting Tweet
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Re: I Made a Self-Quoting Tweet
#52To save people some time, here’s the tweet: https://twitter.com/quinetweet/status/1309951041321013248 In essence, the approach was: * Find out what the tweet id is of a recent tweet * Find out what a tweet is shortly after * Estimate the rate of new tweets appearing * Publish a tweet with a reference to a tweet with a now+guess id The write up is well done and interesting but a little long winded.
Thank you! The reason for experimenting with a sort of blow-by-blow report style here and detailing the full and true journey of the idea was that I feel the whole process from idea to artifact is not written about enough.
That said, it can often be hard to fully pinpoint the actual inception of an idea and just thinking about this one yesterday I realised that the idea likely came up while traversing a long chain of quote tweets. I really appreciate the feedback though—it's especially useful as I'm only starting to publish regularly now so have lots to learn—so thanks again.
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#53Posted at 4:20 PM :)
Looks like someone is working really hard.
/s
Re: I Made a Self-Quoting Tweet
#54I made two mutual-quoting tweets that run the toad oscillator from the Game of Life https://twitter.com/mauritscorneIis/status/12668346972560875...
This is actually much cooler in my opinion! I love your progress indicator too. How did you go about doing this one? And what are the four parts you are referring to? Do you think a 3-cycle is doable?
AFAIK the tweet id has four moving parts, a datacenter id, a worker id, a sequence number, and a timestamp (original poster mentions three).
3-cycle is definitely doable, it may take a week posting 100 tweets per hour or something like that. The biggest problem is twitter blocking the account (even when you stay under the API rate limit).
Code is here if you are interested, I ran it using GitHub Actions: https://github.com/pomber/conway
Re: I Made a Self-Quoting Tweet
#55To save people some time, here’s the tweet: https://twitter.com/quinetweet/status/1309951041321013248 In essence, the approach was: * Find out what the tweet id is of a recent tweet * Find out what a tweet is shortly after * Estimate the rate of new tweets appearing * Publish a tweet with a reference to a tweet with a now+guess id The write up is well done and interesting but a little long winded.
I'm seeing this: > This is not available to you
Yes unfortunately Twitter's UI doesn't seem to handle recursive quote tweets, which was the main disappointment for me. I'm puzzled at those saying it does work as all I've ever gotten for the _quoted_ tweet was:
> This Tweet is unavailable.
But perhaps they are just talking about the actual tweet.
Anyone at Twitter here that can give an indication of where this is on the roadmap?
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#56Was able to pull this off on 4chan, kinda: https://boards.4chan.org/b/thread/841284283
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's definitely a common Twitter bug. "This is not available to you." is something different from "This Tweet is unavailable."
I have "This Tweet is unavailable."
Yes, that is a completely different thing. "This is not available to you." comes up in place of the content in the Twitter UI.
Re: I Made a Self-Quoting Tweet
#58To save people some time, here’s the tweet: https://twitter.com/quinetweet/status/1309951041321013248 In essence, the approach was: * Find out what the tweet id is of a recent tweet * Find out what a tweet is shortly after * Estimate the rate of new tweets appearing * Publish a tweet with a reference to a tweet with a now+guess id The write up is well done and interesting but a little long winded.
Thank you! The reason for experimenting with a sort of blow-by-blow report style here and detailing the full and true journey of the idea was that I feel the whole process from idea to artifact is not written about enough. That said, it can often be hard to fully pinpoint the actual inception of an idea and just thinking about this one yesterday I realised that the idea likely came up while traversing a long chain of…
The write-up was great, actually. The whole point of sharing the article is to read about the process and the technical details, I don't know why people insist on these cheap TL;DRs.
Re: I Made a Self-Quoting Tweet
#59The quote tweet drag has evolved into the quote tweet airfoil.
Re: I Made a Self-Quoting Tweet
#60Previously (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)