$10000 BTC Bounty for an open source tool to export your Twitter followers
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>If you have a solution that works in theory, but that breaks on accounts with many followers, or gets an account banned or shadowbanned for spam, or has some other serious negative side effect, then you don't have a solution.
Not worth it, imo. Release 3 versions of an app, and make sure it works on accounts with hundreds of thousands of followers+, without hitting some hidden Twitter tripwires, and maybe you'll have a chance at $10k?
There is also no evidence presented that sending mass spam DMs to people with links is going to have a more positive impact on your followers coming to your new platform. It seems a lot more likely that word-of-mouth would spread where you are if you are really an influencer, and what is wrong with a few public tweets?
This is a half-baked idea that is arrogant and rude, IMO. At least present some analysis that publicly tweeting is worse than mass DMs with links.
Let me tell you this, if I get a generic DM with a link I am NOT ever going to click that. Haven't Twitter people become used to getting spam links mass DMd to them? I think nobody would click.
It's not 'export' unless every single one of your followers does exactly what your DM says. It's rude to mass DM any audience that isn't expecting it. I think the title is wrong, the concept is rude, and the post language itself is arrogant.
TOS states:
> You may not send unsolicited Direct Messages in a bulk or automated manner, and should be thoughtful about the frequency with which you contact users via Direct Message.
This is exactly what the proposed solution would have to do.
If this is meant for people with large follower counts and regardless of approach you ultimately end up sending thousands upon thousands of messages with the same content + a link, you're going to get flagged and you're going to get banned.
I feel like the authors of bounty are focusing too much on their understandable and not intentionally malicious use case, and overlooking the fact they're asking for a straight up run of the mill spam bot.
In fact the only difference to your usual spam bot is the ultimate aim of the spam it's sending is to actively harm Twitter's own business.
I don't think HN will do it because they're offering a low price (this tool will be brittle and will need constant support & changes as Twitter updates their API or anti-spam procedures), but ethics will not be a problem for a significant chunk of people.
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