I’m offering $1000 in BTC for a good open source app to export from Twitter. It should: - take in a Twitter API key - download all followers - rank by some criteria - send each a DM with specified message (eg link to Substack) up to daily DM limits More details below.
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Ideally you release three versions: open source script, local app, and hosted web app. This bounty will go on for a week. Will be awarded to best project. I reserve the right to not award if nothing meets the criteria by then. But will endeavor to be nice if something is close.
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Context is that a lot of people want to get off Twitter into something like Substack or Ghost. I could code this, but I don’t want to maintain a hosted version or build a local app. However, this is a great student or side project as many would use this.
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This is also a miniature experiment in decentralized work. I think the specification above is clear, but let me know if any questions. To submit an entry, put it on GitHub or equivalent and reply with the link. I think folks like
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Note that your code should work on accounts with many followers. To get you started, some links that *may* help. 1) Python snippet for listing followers using API https://gist.github.com/raulgarreta/64b4daaf5295b5a95dd09718ac7512f7 … 2) twint says it lets you get followers without official API callshttps://github.com/twintproject/twint …
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Bounty up to $3650 now thanks to: $1000 commit from anon $1000 commit from
@ameensol $500 commit from@seanlinehan $150 commit from@deconstructized They have each tweeted or DM’d their matching commits. Pretty cool to see that arise.9 replies 15 retweets 202 likesShow this thread
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