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Post Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2022 7:15 am 
 

So what is up with the Acaeum twitter account?  It is currently flooding my feed with lots of Aussie coins.  This is not the first time it has started flooding random stuff.


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Post Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2022 7:27 am 
 

There's an Acaeum twitter feed? 8O


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Post Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2022 9:11 am 
 

Hi all.  I see it, and will endeavor to fix it as soon as I'm able (I'm currently traveling and don't get home until tonight).

Looks like eBay went and made further changes to its API which is causing this.  They've been on a streak recently.

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Post Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2022 11:59 pm 
 

mbassoc2003 wrote in Twitter Feed:There's an Acaeum twitter feed? 8O


Is it this?
acaeum - Twitter Search

I didn't know it existed either. It includes comments like "The Acaeum's Auction Hunter bot found a Australian mono module on eBay: https://acaeum... or "Class 4 and 5 Rares don't come up for sale often; here's a Australian mono module we just found on eBay:"

If it is a bot, is there really any need for any of us? Could there be a bot programmed to make automatic comments about whether a certain price is worth it, sarcastic remarks & flame wars, or speculations about publishing history?
  

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Post Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2022 12:15 am 
 

You'll notice a Twitter icon at the very top of your screen, right next to the Private Messages link.  The Auction Hunter bot cross-posts its findings to the Twitter feed.

Oh, and three popular forum users here are actually bots.  They're pretty easy to spot once you know what to look for.

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Post Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2022 7:56 am 
 

Twitter bot’s going crazy again.
  

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Post Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2022 9:46 am 
 

Yeah, still working on fixing this.  eBay's having an API meltdown.  They of course don't really care, because they don't want you searching for the exact items you want anyway.

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