Gregory's Server@darius I tend to only follow people who I wouldn't mind reading 100% of their tweets. So I've always made my bots post once or twice a day instead of the common once an hour or so - I don't want them to babble constantly. Little robots I program to leave me a present at an appointed time to help me mark time and make it through the day.
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 @jplebreton @darius I've often thought it would be neat to have a kind of "parameterized follow" where you can see everything an account posts *except* for ... say, things that match a certain string, or self-boosts, or only letting thru 50% of the posts, or delaying all posts by 6 months, or something. I've wondered how hard it would be to do this as a bot; point it at an account and set the parameters. it's somewhere on my project stack but not near the top.  @technomancy @darius i could imagine per-followed-account "throttle" settings being useful. "show me no more than X posts by this person per hour/day", "don't show me posts by this person that contain these words", "only show me posts by this person above/below a certain engagement threshold", etc. @jplebreton @darius yeah. the problem with implementing this as a bot that boosts the original posts is that the subject account would get tired of the notifications *really* quickly  @technomancy @jplebreton my dariusbots bot on Twitter is basically the threshold version of this https://twitter.com/dariusbots |
@jplebreton yeah unless I have a very specific reason, I make my bots post 3 times a day -- I would do less than that, but then I would end up with people in certain time zones who would never be awake to see the posts