Super Challenge: questions and discussion

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Re: Super Challenge: questions and discussion

Postby rdearman » Wed Mar 08, 2023 9:38 pm

I have looked at the logs and there are some errors, but I need you to be more specific. Those tweets don't appear to be malformed. I'm going to need more information.

What is your twitter account name? should start with @
What are the dates and times which you sent the tweets?
What was the time and date you tried to remove a tweet?
What tweets did you send to edit your status? Exactly, please copy and paste the tweets.
Have you changed anything on your twitter account? Name settings, etc. If so, what?
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Re: Super Challenge: questions and discussion

Postby newpotato » Sat Mar 11, 2023 10:33 am

rdearman wrote:I have looked at the logs and there are some errors, but I need you to be more specific. Those tweets don't appear to be malformed. I'm going to need more information.

What is your twitter account name? should start with @

Thank you for your help!

My twitter account name is @reallyzaogao.

rdearman wrote:What are the dates and times which you sent the tweets?


You should be able to see all the tweets (except for the undo tweet that I deleted) here: https://twitter.com/reallyzaogao/with_replies

Here is a quick list (note that all times are in UTC):

The tweets that were not successful (bot didn't reply, and they didn't appear on the super challenge page):
Mar 8, 2023 8:57 @langchallenge #watched 20 minutes #chinese
Mar 7, 2023 20:12 @langchallenge #watched 10 minutes #zh
Mar 6 2023 20:13 @langchallenge #watch 15 minutes #zh
Mar 4, 2023 19:58 @langchallenge #watched 20 minutes #zh

The tweets that worked fine:
Feb 22, 2023 10:14 @langchallenge #watched 40 minutes #chinese
Feb 22, 2023 10:03 @langchallenge #watched 40 minutes (Note: This was the tweet I undid, so does not appear on the super challenge page)
Feb 20, 2023 8:05 @langchallenge #watch #chinese 45 minutes
Feb 12, 2023 6:15 @langchallenge I'm going to #register and study #Chinese

rdearman wrote:What was the time and date you tried to remove a tweet?
What tweets did you send to edit your status? Exactly, please copy and paste the tweets.


When I wanted to undo the Feb 22, 2023 10:03 tweet I originally accidentally sent the undo tweet not as a reply. I did delete this tweet, and unfortunately it looks like it has already been wiped from twitter back end systems, as I wasn't able to retrieve it by requesting my twitter archive. I believe it would have been posted between 10:03 and 12:00 on Feb 22, 2023, and the text of it would have been just "@langchallenge #undo".

I then subsequently did send the undo instruction as a reply to the tweet I intended and the undo was successful. The successful undo reply that I sent (as a reply to the Feb 22, 2023 10:03 tweet) was:
Feb 22, 2023 19:27 @langchallenge #undo

rdearman wrote:Have you changed anything on your twitter account? Name settings, etc. If so, what?


I haven't made any changes to my twitter account.
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Re: Super Challenge: questions and discussion

Postby rdearman » Sat Mar 11, 2023 12:35 pm

I couldn't find any errors in the Database, nor in the background process which checks twitter on those days. Everyone elses tweets were processed. I don't know what else to do, so I have restarted the whole thing. Have another try and let me know how you get on.
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Re: Super Challenge: questions and discussion

Postby newpotato » Sun Mar 12, 2023 3:09 am

rdearman wrote:I couldn't find any errors in the Database, nor in the background process which checks twitter on those days. Everyone elses tweets were processed. I don't know what else to do, so I have restarted the whole thing. Have another try and let me know how you get on.


Thank you! It looks like the restart has fixed whatever was going on. I've been able to successfully resubmit all of the previous missed ones (just doing a straight copy and paste even) plus a few new ones.
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Re: Super Challenge: questions and discussion

Postby SilentEcho » Sun May 21, 2023 11:26 am

I signed up for the double super challenge in French in February 21. Life got in the way and it was only at the start of January of this year that I was in a position to complete the challenge.

What I completed so far:

Films: 163.5 Hours
Books: 4,865 Pages
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Re: Super Challenge: questions and discussion

Postby badger » Sat Aug 19, 2023 11:39 pm

I haven't been doing Twitter, but double French done.

now time to do something more productive (in the speaking/writing sense).
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Re: Super Challenge: questions and discussion

Postby Suzie » Wed Oct 11, 2023 6:12 pm

I am also happy to report that I finished the Super Challenge in French today. You can find the list of films/TV shows and books in my log. I did stop using the Twitter X bot after a while.

I went mostly for low brow entertainment: SciFi and crimes. My personal highlights were (among others) the Netflix series "Lupin" (and nearly everything with Omar Sy, really), as well as "La grande histoire de la Belgique" (P. Weber), which finally answered my question why Belgium exists in the first place, since many Belgians do not seem overly happy with their country.

Sending my best wishes to everyone who is still busy completing the challenge!
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Re: Super Challenge: questions and discussion

Postby jeffers » Tue Dec 19, 2023 1:56 pm

I can now add my name to the list of people who have completed a Super Challenge! I finished my French full challenge last night.
(More details in my log, if anyone wants to know).

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Re: Super Challenge: questions and discussion

Postby rdearman » Fri Dec 22, 2023 2:05 pm

I am planning to trial a Mastodon bot and possibly an Email bot for the next Super Challenge (assuming anyone is interested in it still). I'll put up a test site sometime in January.
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Re: Super Challenge: questions and discussion

Postby Cavesa » Thu Dec 28, 2023 7:55 pm

I have massively failed for obvious reasons this time, even though I've put in a surprising amount of German listening. I need to count that in my log.

It would be awesome to have a non-twitter bot next time!

Next time, I'm gonna win!!!

This time, I bow to the inspiring and admirable victors! Congratulations!!!

The next round is starting in May?
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