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Show HN : Retweet Retract - Correct the people who retweeted your hacked account

7 points by stonlyb 13y ago

Peroni 13y ago
Care to fill us in on the process? I tried a sample tweet and the following page wasn't particularly helpful in terms of 'what happens next'.
- stonlyb 13y ago
  This is really an alpha version to validate the idea. Working on the code to show you your recent tweets that got retweeted so you can pick from them instead of retyping. Step 2 would be a pre-constructed tweet linking to the correction that you can retweet yourself. Step 3, @rtrtweet tweets the first 100 people who retweeted you with the correction. Trying to build this in Golang to learn the language.
  - stonlyb 13y ago
    *retraction : its @RTretract
  - grimtrigger 13y ago
    Shouldn't there be some sort of login? Otherwise anyone can "retract" anything and no one will trust your handle.
    - Peroni 13y ago
      This is exactly why I asked the question. I simply want to know how they go about getting a retraction request executed.
      - stonlyb 13y ago
        Site will be going live tomorrow with retraction executions. Care to take another look and let me know what you think http://go.rtrt.co/ http://go.rtrt.co/
    - stonlyb 13y ago
      Yes, authentication will be twitter oauth based.
    - stonlyb 13y ago
      Site will be going live tomorrow with retraction executions. Care to take another look and let me know what you think http://go.rtrt.co/ http://go.rtrt.co/
danso 13y ago
This seems like the kind of thing that would almost necessitate use of Twitter's API and an authenticated user, right? What exactly is someone supposed to paste into the tweet box? The link to the tweet? Or the full text? I'm assuming the former, but the form input shouldn't be a textbox then.
- stonlyb 13y ago
  Yes, this is just the user validation version. The actual service will 1. Require you to authenticate with twitter OAuth, 2. Pick from an actual list of your tweets that have been retweeted, 3. Give you a tweet with the retraction, 4. Direct tweet the retraction to the first 100 people that retweeted you
- stonlyb 13y ago
  Site will be going live tomorrow with retraction executions. Care to take another look and let me know what you think http://go.rtrt.co/ http://go.rtrt.co/

7 points by stonlyb 13y ago

Care to fill us in on the process? I tried a sample tweet and the following page wasn't particularly helpful in terms of 'what happens next'.

stonlyb 13y ago
This is really an alpha version to validate the idea. Working on the code to show you your recent tweets that got retweeted so you can pick from them instead of retyping. Step 2 would be a pre-constructed tweet linking to the correction that you can retweet yourself. Step 3, @rtrtweet tweets the first 100 people who retweeted you with the correction. Trying to build this in Golang to learn the language.
- stonlyb 13y ago
  *retraction : its @RTretract
- grimtrigger 13y ago
  Shouldn't there be some sort of login? Otherwise anyone can "retract" anything and no one will trust your handle.
  - Peroni 13y ago
    This is exactly why I asked the question. I simply want to know how they go about getting a retraction request executed.
    - stonlyb 13y ago
      Site will be going live tomorrow with retraction executions. Care to take another look and let me know what you think http://go.rtrt.co/ http://go.rtrt.co/
  - stonlyb 13y ago
    Yes, authentication will be twitter oauth based.
  - stonlyb 13y ago
    Site will be going live tomorrow with retraction executions. Care to take another look and let me know what you think http://go.rtrt.co/ http://go.rtrt.co/

danso 13y ago

This seems like the kind of thing that would almost necessitate use of Twitter's API and an authenticated user, right? What exactly is someone supposed to paste into the tweet box? The link to the tweet? Or the full text? I'm assuming the former, but the form input shouldn't be a textbox then.

stonlyb 13y ago
Yes, this is just the user validation version. The actual service will 1. Require you to authenticate with twitter OAuth, 2. Pick from an actual list of your tweets that have been retweeted, 3. Give you a tweet with the retraction, 4. Direct tweet the retraction to the first 100 people that retweeted you
stonlyb 13y ago
Site will be going live tomorrow with retraction executions. Care to take another look and let me know what you think http://go.rtrt.co/ http://go.rtrt.co/