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Pretty cool exercise. My lame-o half-ass solution: buy a domain name, send out a tweet containing a link to that domain, and forward the domain to that tweet.
by scottjackson 17y ago
Pretty cool exercise.
My lame-o half-ass solution: buy a domain name, send out a tweet containing a link to that domain, and forward the domain to that tweet.
Why write a nerdy shell script when you can just throw some money at the problem? ;)
- rriepe 17y agoLooks like that was forbidden in the rules... it had to have its actual URL in it.
- diN0bot 17y agook, the other lame-ass brute-force long-term percentage-playing solution: buy mad badwidth, create tons of whitelisted twitter usernames, and continually send tweets with a url to a tweet id that hasn't occurred yet. for instance, every tweet contains a url for tweet id 3149892792 (2000 more than the current most recent tweet on the public timeline at the time of this comment). once the system creates a tweet that overshoots the desired id, a new goal id is selected. eventually, you'll get the right answer, especially if you can tweet a good percentage of tweets for a particular period of time.
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