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• Simon Blackley commented  ·  November 3, 2012 5:29 a.m.  ·  Delete

  Buffer is great, but Twitter is not just a publication channel! A lot of the really great stuff happens in quick-fire real time. I think the real use case here is 'Avoid irrelevant scheduled tweet from Buffer in the middle of a conversation.'

• Anonymous commented  ·  September 6, 2012 8:35 p.m.  ·  Delete

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• mariyaiva09 commented  ·  April 30, 2012 5:45 a.m.  ·  Delete

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• DJ Paine commented  ·  April 30, 2012 12:58 a.m.  ·  Delete

  this is a BRILLIANT IDEA!!!!!!!!!!! i'd use this!!

• lissnup commented  ·  April 17, 2012 7:11 a.m.  ·  Delete

  I'd like to suggest a simple option while the more complicated issues are under consideration - a timer delay function on the "post this now" feature so that tweets care not sent out so quickly that the user risks being temporarily blocked from posting - popularly known as "Twitter jail". The Twitter limit is 100 tweets per hour. User activity is polled by Twitter every 10-15 minutes and the average/trend is checked to determine if the limit is likely to be breached. A simple rule of thumb delay that disables the "post now" button for 90 seconds after it has been clicked would act as a "buffer" for users to help them avoid accidentally triggering this form of censure. Not perfect, because it can't take into account tweets posted using other methods, but certainly a big help for anyone using Buffer as their main tool for ad-hoc posting

• mackaaij commented  ·  February 12, 2012 10:44 p.m.  ·  Delete

  I send a lot of my tweets via Buffer so that would work. I won't put everything IN the Buffer-queue, soms are time-sensitive (like news) - for those I choose Post Now. Delay or skip tweets around this time would be nice.

• Patrick Allmond commented  ·  February 12, 2012 8:22 p.m.  ·  Delete

  Leo - Here is what I am attempting to balance against. I use buffer to share out good content from my RSS feeeds that I watch. Wordpress is also automatically tweeting old content every 4-6 hours from my blog also. Personally I don't like to share anything with a link more than once every 60 minutes.

• Kayla commented  ·  December 18, 2011 7:37 p.m.  ·  Delete

  Agreed. This would work out wonderfully.

• IEBA.com commented  ·  November 16, 2011 9:07 a.m.  ·  Delete

  I'm unlceat as to how many tweets you're sedng out at (for example) 11am, that you'd have to push the scheduled tweet back. I mean, I can understand if you just sent 20 in a row, but to push back the 1 or 2 scheduled then doesn't make much of a difference. If it's just one tweet and then the scheduled one, then tI don't think two ina row (or within a few minutes of each other) will bother anyone. That's not much "congestion."

• M.T. commented  ·  November 9, 2011 5:04 p.m.  ·  Delete

  Seconded. This will avoid congestion

• Kevin commented  ·  October 13, 2011 10:05 p.m.  ·  Delete

  Here's what my ideal delay setting would look like:
  [ x ] Skip schedule tweet if I've tweeted in the past (text field) minutes
  [ x ] Ignore @ replys
  [ x ] Ignore retweets (will also ignore any tweet beginning with "RT" or "MT")

• Daniel Foster commented  ·  September 9, 2011 8:33 a.m.  ·  Delete

  this could be used to allow multiple people to contribute cool things they see without having to worry about conflicting with an important broadcast tweet

• Oscar Gonzalez commented  ·  September 5, 2011 4:41 p.m.  ·  Delete

  This would be awesome. I'd vote for not taking @replies into consideration. Just regular tweets.

• mackaaij commented  ·  July 11, 2011 1:57 p.m.  ·  Delete

  And take @replies into consideration (don't count that as a tweet). Option like "Skip a timeslot if this account sent a non-@reply tweet .. minutes before"?