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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: 3, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday December 20 2017, @12:47PM (1 child)
Pro-tip: If you're looking to impress someone, you need to come up with a life that's better than what the person you're speaking to already has.
Elite-pro-tip: Money isn't how you win at life. It's just a means to an end.
When the person you're talking to works for himself, makes enough at it that he never has to work more than one day in four on average, and can drop everything whenever he feels like it and be in his boat on a lake fishing half an hour later? Yeah, you're not going to impress by touting your corporate shackles and living in the same structure as hundreds or thousands of other people.
Next time try something like telling me about your sweet new bass boat.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: -1, Troll) by fakefuck39 on Thursday December 28 2017, @08:28AM
Only retards buy boats - they are a terrible investment, a constant cause of annoying maintenance problems, and if you use one, they tie you down to a small area. If I need a boat I rent one where ever I am. I only read the last line of your post. I spend about half my time traveling around the world, about half at home, and about 5 days a month total at the office.
You started this thread by asking users not on twitter whether they use your twitter feed. Then you started this ball swinging conversation, at which you lose. You are a moron.