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Ask HN: What do you think of our new app? FutureTweets.com

14 points by gumbah ↗ HN
We launched http://futuretweets.com the day before yesterday. It's a small Twitter app build in Django that lets you schedule your Twitter messages. Send it at a specific time in the future or send a reoccuring Tweet daily, weekly, monthly or yearly.

I'm really interested in what you guys think of it (design, functionality etc)

Cheers! J

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davidw
Might it get you banned from twitter if you're not careful?
gumbah
Whoops! Haven't thought of that... you mean they have a limit on their API use?

Might have to build in a schedule-tweet-maximum then...

ivankirigin
I think the API limit is once per limit per account. So if an account has multiple tools accessing the API, it is easy to overschedule. I would put a sanity check in both your update rate and the amount you let people schedule. Don't become a twitter-DOS scheduling system :)
gumbah
Good idea... Thanks!
bigbang
Good idea. Thought of the same

Although I thought sendible.com which also does this was more comprehensive in this arena.

gumbah
Didn't know Sendible... looks like they've taken the concept to the max. Interesting! Thanks for the link
markessien
Don't let the existence of sedible discourage you. They are too wide in focus, while you are smaller in focus and you have a better chance of getting more tweeter users than sendible.
bigbang
I agree. They have less than 9K registered users so far. I bet theres a whole lot of ppl who want to schedule thier tweats. Your strong point is that you do it only for twitter.
pt
this is neat, i just used it on MAKE for a daily sub code discount. i'd like to have a feature where it can do a count down... for example each day the tweet could say...

there X number of days until Y ... blah blah

handy for events and other things i'd use it for.

joshsharp
Nice looking site! However you also have competition from http://tweetlater.com. I hear that's what most people use for scheduling tweets at the moment.
ryanmahoski 

   "have an alibi..."
...that ends in "sent from Future Tweets."
gumbah
You can actually turn that off. It's a preference on your account settings page, and you can override that per scheduled tweet... :)
ryanmahoski
Interesting. So what does it say when you override it? "From web"? Isn't that hard to accomplish via API?
gumbah
It indeed says "From web", which is the standard if you don't provide a source parameter to the API. So it's not that hard :)
senthil_rajasek
Hmmm are people actually ok with giving out their twitter account password to a third party site?
kirubakaran
People give their bank passwords to mint.com etc!
alex_c
Aw. Just based on the title, I thought it was an app that lets you guess possible future tweets, and alerts you when anyone actually tweets your guess.

That could be fun too :)

gumbah
Haha that's pretty cool as well! Like an automated Twitter guessing game! :)