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So, apparently around November 5th we stopped posting to Twitter. We didn't find out until around the end of that month and when we did nobody had the time and/or ability to look into why until this past week.
Now how we get our headlines over to Twitter is overly complicated and, frankly, idiotic. It's done by one of our IRC bots pulling headlines from the RSS feed and posting them on Twitter as @SoylentNews. The bot was written back in 2014 with hand-rolled (as opposed to installed via package manager) Python libraries and hasn't been updated since. This was breakage that should absolutely have been expected to happen. Twitter's penchant for arbitrarily changing their unversioned API means you either keep on top of changes or expect things to break for no apparent reason.
Here's the question: do we even care? We can either find someone who's willing to rewrite the bot to a new Twitter library, do it the sane way as either a cron or slashd job, or just say to hell with it since we only have two hundred or so followers on Twitter anyway. What say you, folks?
[TMB Note]: Twitter's who-to-follow algorithms really impressed me this morning when I logged in to manually post this story. How did they know we were all huge @JustinBieber and @BarackObama fans?
[Update]: We're again annoying Twitter users by spreading relative intelligence across their platform of choice. Credit goes to Crash for wisely pointing out that we don't have to code everything ourselves.
(Score: 5, Funny) by chromas on Monday December 18 2017, @12:53PM (6 children)
You just need to grow the audience engagement with intelligent social brand integrations using monetized influencers and dank memes.
(Score: 4, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday December 18 2017, @01:02PM
Twitter apparently don't allow dank memes or anything else that might be found offensive to protected classes anymore as of some time today. See here [twitter.com].
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 3, Funny) by c0lo on Monday December 18 2017, @01:10PM
Weird Al said it better [youtube.com] - a bit retro already, I know, but more comprehensive.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 3, Funny) by acid andy on Monday December 18 2017, @02:04PM (3 children)
What's a dank meme? Is goatse one?
If a cat has kittens, does a rat have rittens, a bat bittens and a mat mittens?
(Score: 3, Informative) by takyon on Monday December 18 2017, @02:36PM (2 children)
Shrek memes [listenonrepeat.com]
(mostly dead) [youtube.com] MLG [youtube.com] memes [youtube.com]
any drug memes [youtube.com]
Pepe? [archive.is]
any bullshit tbh [youtube.com]
[SIG] 10/28/2017: Soylent Upgrade v14 [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Monday December 18 2017, @08:43PM (1 child)
I feel both happy and out-of-touch that I had only seen/heard of one of those.
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 18 2017, @09:29PM
Memes are not something to invest in, a humorous subculture of nonsense. Being out of touch with memes is like not keeping up on Cosmo, nothing of value is lost.