Testnet Functionality Badly Needed

Just venting at how annoying it is to actually develop for the new API. One of the most basic functionalities is using the GET /2/tweets/search/recent endpoint. It’s limited to 1 request every 15 minutes, and you can’t even request just one tweet matching your filter, it has to be 10 minimum, and that means you only get 10 cracks at debugging your bot per month. God forbid you see 100 per request is possible and misinterpret, because you are done for a month if it works.

There is a simple solution to this and that is truncating data for requests flagged with test.

Sure, what we are building will require $5k a month plan, but it will never get built if developing it is impossible.

Here’s the flow:

1. Fetch recent posts @ our account with a matching hashtag.

2. Run those through a local LLM tailored to shitpost relating to the Trumposphere.

3. Reply back to the user with content.

It’s pretty fun. I mean, will it make money ever? Who knows, but this is something that we banged out in a day for Telegram bots, but it’s impossible on X.

Even on the $200 plan, you are getting capped very quick and stalling development on other endpoints.

The $200 plan should be the Premium included price. Hobbyists like us just want to mess around, not use business critical features like real time streams and authentication for apps. If something takes off then a plan of pay as you go makes sense as well.

And to end this rant, it still says $100 to signup for the paid tier. You go to checkout and it’s now $200. After today’s experience hitting the rate limit wall I will not be paying $200, because it doesn’t even allow us to develop properly. Keep in mind most software engineers make less than $1000 a month these days. Pretty horrific.

/rant

Edit: Want to rant more about the academic Article 40 stuff after my dinner ranting about this topic. I agree with not allowing academic institutions access if at all possible for free like before. It’s very important to preserve LLM neutrality and to encourage uses of grok and local models alike.

The future is home schooling and learning from a very young age. My three year old daughter sits next to me and watches me play with these tools. Taking the Adobe route will lead to Affinity. So now she sees me swear at X and say how awesome Telegram is.

In truth, they are different and serve much different purposes.The ability to research sentiment and engage with new techniques should not be limited to the point you can’t even learn how to do it.

A pay as you go model is badly needed if the testnet is not allowed. There’s just so many states and bugs a complicated bot has. Nobody can wait one month between attempts to develop something.

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