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tlrobinson on July 10, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Here's my 4 hr experiment into making a viral twit...

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.

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