The New X (Twitter) Fifty (50) Tweet Limit for Automated Posting

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I'll cover this more later in this blog, but in short — Twitter, back in June, forced all developers to reset their access tokens. The underlying purpose was to limit developers to about 1500 tweets per month, and if you went over the limit - your access was "cutoff" until the end of the cycle (in our case, the remainder of the month) _or_ you could pay Twitter money to tweet more.

The good news is that "cutoff" ends in a day, namely June August 6 at midnight. After that we will adhere to the 1500 tweet per month limit. More good news after this next section.

The remainder of this blog is for the concepts to the next blog. In the next blog I will discuss the moving target of "journalism" and inner workings of the Search Engine and it's Results Page.

However, the next few blogs are to make the point that new tools are sorely needed. In addition, the current practices and methods for journalism are sorely lacking.

FOR THAT one must comprehend the different between a recipe and an understanding.

Most People Don't Think Simple Enough

Next, if you have not seen or heard of this concept, I very highly recommend you watch the first 3 minutes of the video linked below.

It starts with the host, Lex Friedman, asking - in a low-key manner - the guest, Jim Keller, an elaborate question

So what have you learned ... about the human abstractions,

from individual functional human units TO the broader organization

What does it take to create something special?

Jim Keller: Most People Don't Think Simple Enough | AI Podcast Clips
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CSeY10zbqo
Feb 10, 2020

In short, his answer is: Do you know the difference between a recipe and an understanding? He continues for almost 3 minutes.

After 2:55, the discussion becomes very technical.

However, after that he does mention two (2) very important concepts.

  1. refactoring - he says so between 4:13 and 4:23
  2. diminishing return curves - between 5:40 and 6:27

I'll get back to these concepts near the end of this blog.

The 50 Tweets Limit

Today we still tweet around 70 tweets per day, but now those tweets are inputted one at a time. The scheduling is done via the very new Tweet scheduler (button) on the bottom of the tweet input window. Each tweet takes between 10 seconds and 3 minutes, depending on the preparation ahead of time. It is not unusual to take 4 hours on a busy news day to load that day's tweets.

Tweet scheduler button
Needless to say, we are adjusting everything. But there is good news – starting Monday morning the tweets can be automatically posted again.

Along with the automatic posting, we can collect tweets from important persons - such as @AliBradleyTV @BenBergquam @BensmanTodd @BethanyBlankley @CabelloAuden @MrAndyNgo and @ViralNewsNYC to name a few.

In addition, we will collect the tweets from 70+ CBP and USBP accounts. The later (government accounts) give us great access to assets like; stock CBP photos, from-the-field photos, and incident photos of better quality than gets published by the legacy media.

Also, many tweets are low-volume media stories - sometimes very local. It is NOT unusual for a news organization to publish a tweet as a story. Depending the story writer, it can be a great story or a weak recap of 280 characters.

More on this at a later date.

Refactoring and Diminishing Return Curves

I've borrow this definition from wikipedia, but cut out technical parts.

Refactoring is the process of restructuring existing methods without changing its external behavior. Refactoring is intended to improve design, structure, and/or implement new features, while preserving its current functionality.

The section below is from the Overload_unload for news on August 1, 2023
Today's Overload_Unload shows another example.

This SIMPLE example is a summary of four articles. The intent is to have a reference point for possibly reusing the ARTICLES (plural) at a future date.

NYC Dems and NY Mayor Eric Adams Overwhelmed with Migrants Overflow in New York City, Slam Biden Administration

This started several days ago. After a return from Washington D.C. and being assigned a "DHS Liaison", on Monday City Officials held a "angry rally" outside of city hall, NYPost/Metro reports . This as migrants are now forced to sleep on the streets and on buses.

ICYMI, in the video above Jim Keller talks about refactoring and the consequences

  • JIM: And then somebody else will look at it and say ~the way you divide the problem up and the way the different features are interacting is limiting you. It has to be rethought, rewritten.~ So then you refactor it and rewrite it and what people commonly find is the rewrite is not only faster but half as complicated.
  • LEX: From scratch?
  • JIM: Yes.

The point is — the current practices and methods for journalism are sorely lacking.

In the next blog, I will point to specific examples NOW IN PLACE that show that *some* people realizes this change is happening and are fighting for a new type of journalism. This feature (Overload_Unload) just added to the "search engine" is but one of many many features to come.

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