Add an automated way to get tweets un-retweeted

[squeek502]

I haven't looked into the possibilities for how to do this, but it might be some useful functionality to have:

• If the Twitter API can notify the bot when they have been blocked, then we could go through and un-retweet any tweets from the user that blocked it.
• We could track @replies to the bot and have some specific message that will get things un-retweeted.

I think the first would be best, as the second would require more effort on the users part and would be more difficult to communicate. A simple thing like "block this bot to stop your tweets from being retweeted" seems like a straightforward way to go about it.

We should also make sure that we already can't retweet tweets from users that have us blocked. Not sure if statuses/filter API filters those tweets out for us or not.

[squeek502]

Looks like the first implementation isn't possible. You can only retrieve a list of users that you are blocking, not a list of users that have blocked you.

[squeek502]

We should also make sure that we already can't retweet tweets from users that have us blocked. Not sure if statuses/filter API filters those tweets out for us or not.

This doesn't seem possible either. The API doesn't return different results for someone that has you blocked. statuses/user_timeline and statuses/show/:id both return normal results.

https://twittercommunity.com/t/getting-blockers-and-spammers-by-rest-api/11723/6

[plorry]

@squeek502 I guess that makes sense.
I was thinking that a message about unRTing would go in the bio, since you can see that information on a hover-over, without needing to click through to the profile.
"Tweet 'unRT me' to me to unretweet" could fit in bio (or something like that that reads better :\ ). Then we implement the second method of auto-unretweeting.

[squeek502]

Yeah, however, it's a bit weird that you can't check if specific users have you blocked using the REST API, since you can see that information when you visit in the profile of a user that has you blocked on the website.

But, yeah, looks like "tweet this to me to un-retweet" is probably our best bet.