Here's my 4 hr experiment into making a viral twitter app

tlrobinson · on July 10, 2009

To check out the damage:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=flamewhale

It's pretty amusing how seriously some people take this.

Also, it seems to hit the max API calls / tweets pretty quickly. Maybe you should make an army of Twitter accounts? Though Twitter may disapprove...

tdavis · on July 10, 2009

@flamewhale fuck you retard... are you a 4chan member?

The irony is delicious!

rwolf · on July 11, 2009

another way around the rate limits is to ask to be whitelisted (http://twitter.com/help/request_whitelisting).

twitter was even nice enough to whitelist my test account the last time I asked.

sherb113 · on July 10, 2009

Stupid, but I had a quick chuckle. You only get 1,000 tweets a day, so this wont be fun for long.

whughes · on July 10, 2009

Disturbingly high percentage of spam/agenda-based targets for these flames. Am I missing something? Is this abuse, or is the signal-to-noise just that bad?

randomwalker · on July 10, 2009

Perhaps you should use the Shakespearean insult generator. http://www.pangloss.com/seidel/Shaker/index.html

buugs · on July 10, 2009

I'm guessing it will be marked spam soon but interesting.

nx · on July 10, 2009

Lasted about 2 hours.

rokhayakebe · on July 10, 2009

Why not send secret tweets "@thenewggirlinmyoffice I think you hot"? It does not have to be rude.

python_kiss · on July 10, 2009

I like that idea. It could also be words of wisdom or something in between. The framework is already there and I don't mind giving anyone this code. All that needs to be changed are the quotes and the domain name.

hipsterelitist · on July 10, 2009

post it on github. i can see this being quite the fun distraction for many people.

wizard_2 · on July 10, 2009

I sent you an email =)