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can you figure out a posting schedule for this Mark Zuckerberg guy, maybe there are certain times he is more likely to post. Then you can increase your rate of monitoring during those times, without such a high chance of being labelled a spammer by Facebook?

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It takes a while for a Facebook post to processed. When posted it shows up in the user's news stream. However, once the page is refreshed it might be a few minutes before the post is seen again. I watched a video where some developers were talking about the problems with getting feedback to the posting user and pushing the posts to different server farms around the world. A lot of posts take minutes to propagate.

That would mean that you should use vpn and get an American IP address, close to a FB datacenter.

To hack Facebook maybe first we need to understand how they do things.[1]

[1] https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/scaling-...

That's sounds like another interesting project to try :)

I should try this

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