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by alialkhatib 3950 days ago
It's cool to hack around with APIs for general benefit (and Twitter's is as good as any, and provides access to lots of neat data), but fair warning: Twitter doesn't approve of using its API for automated retweets[0]. Chalk this up as a different sort of lesson in working with APIs :)

[0]: https://support.twitter.com/articles/76915#Retweeting

1 comments

Hi and thanks for your answer. Retweeting should be used cautously of course and not for spamming. You don't want to provide a poor Twitter experience to your users, that's crystal clear.