A website for creating Twitter gimmick bots
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Attention all former users of Cheap Bots Done Quick:
I created a similar site that should be a drop-in replacement! It uses Tracery just like CBDQ. You can even make your bot tweet things in order, and there's a tweet preview feature for testing!
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It seems Twitter has started opting newly-registered developer accounts in to a different developer dashboard that lacks a free tier. As a result, some newly-registered users are unable to get their bot tweeting since Twitter returns an error, "Payment Required". If you've recently signed up for GimmickBots and get redirected to console.x\.com rather than remaining on developer.x.com when you go to your developer dashboard, you are affected. Existing bots that are already set up are not affected.
Hopefully it's just a bug that they will fix. It's only been a few days since it started, and it wouldn't be the first time Twitter has broken something.
If you aren't being redirected to console.x\.com but your bot still isn't tweeting, it's probably a different issue. Feel free to DM for help.
Trying a potential work around. It seems to be working so far. Unless that changes, your bots should start to resume tweeting on schedule.
It seems that Twitter has blocked the host the bots run on, which is why they aren't tweeting. Maybe it's accidental and they'll fix it. In case it isn't, I'll try working around the block. You can leave your bot running (they're still attempting to tweet on schedule, just being denied by Twitter) and they will resume when the issue is resolved.
It seems that Twitter has blocked the host the bots run on, which is why they aren't tweeting. Maybe it's accidental and they'll fix it. In case it isn't, I'll try working around the block. You can leave your bot running (they're still attempting to tweet on schedule, just being denied by Twitter) and they will resume when the issue is resolved.
🫠Looks like Twitter made their free-tier API even more limited: now the max number of tweets is only 500/month (17 per day?). It seems it will no longer be possible to tweet more frequently than that with a free Twitter developer account.
Their next tier, Basic, is $200/month and would give 15000 tweets, but I assume no one here is crazy enough to pay for that. I could, but it'd only be enough for 20 users to tweet hourly, so it wouldn't be enough. The next tier is $5000/month.
Those of you tweeting every three hours or more shouldn't be affected (although, if you start/stop your bot repeatedly, it's possible to run into that 17/day limit).
Those of you who have been tweeting more frequently should switch to every 2 hours, for now at least. If your bot isn't tweeting, it's likely hit Twitter's daily rate limit already, which I believe should reset in 24 hours. Sorry about this.
For those wanting to tweet more frequently, we might be able to use Twitter's internal API for that instead. But that may not work well, or may lead to your account being suspended if they detect the automation. Not familiar with how robust it is. I don't want to be responsible for people losing their account, but if I made an opt-in toggle you could enable to bring back higher frequency tweeting for your account, would anyone actually be interested in that, given the risk? (Assuming it'll even work.)