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Might be less obtrusive to favorite instead of retweeting.

(Edit: This assumes you can get a list of favorited tweets ordered by when they were favorited. I just noticed the web interface orders them by time posted, not time favorited.)

Aren't go just publishing the otp and not the message? Or did I miss something?

They're publishing the encrypted ciphertext, which is the plaintext message xor OTP (aka the key). The encrypted ciphertext would be the user id's of all recent retweets.

The receiving party would have to know the OTP to decrypt the message.

good suggestion. you probably want to encode some redundancy so you can pick plausibly interesting people to retweet, rather than your xor'd number being an obvious bot, or it's still suspicious.