I'm starting to notice people put way too much faith in the summary bit -w-
Twitter is a very broken site, trying to pull text from an account overview has always pulled random shit. Normally it's just something about activating location tracking.
I realize your bot can mess up with the summaries, and I know it happens rather often. I'm not accusing your bot of anything, but twitter of pushing distracting information in any way they can.
This particular instance seems a bit far-fetched as a mistake or bug, to me. The UFO stuff seems like a distraction for the Pentagon audit.
Occam's razor has failed at almost every turn politically in the past year. I'd say for the current climate of politics, the more likely scenario is more complicated:
We can call it something clever like Slick Willie's Bloat
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derram ago
I'm starting to notice people put way too much faith in the summary bit -w-
Twitter is a very broken site, trying to pull text from an account overview has always pulled random shit. Normally it's just something about activating location tracking.
Here's the source to the summary bit, not my code so I never got around to trying to fix its bugs: https://github.com/voneiden/PyTeaser/blob/py3/pyteaser.py
Crensch ago
I realize your bot can mess up with the summaries, and I know it happens rather often. I'm not accusing your bot of anything, but twitter of pushing distracting information in any way they can.
This particular instance seems a bit far-fetched as a mistake or bug, to me. The UFO stuff seems like a distraction for the Pentagon audit.
derram ago
Occam's razor.
Why serve up special text when the default is already useless as is?
Crensch ago
Occam's razor has failed at almost every turn politically in the past year. I'd say for the current climate of politics, the more likely scenario is more complicated:
We can call it something clever like Slick Willie's Bloat