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fire up Postman

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fire up Postman Interceptor

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turn on interceptor

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do a tweet

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navigate to the tweet POST request in postman

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add weighted_character_count : true to the body keys

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add your 280 or less character tweet in the status key

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hit send!

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ruin twitter

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MentatHariSeldon commented Oct 30, 2017 •
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Sorry, it doesnt work. It needs authentication to post a tweet that way. If you view the HTML response you may see it redirects you to login page.

You may use API token and authenticate yourself but you only can use https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/update.json? url then. You can tweet with that url and API token authentication. (Oath 1.0)

That way i tried to combine your weighted_character_count : true code with that url, but it gave me a 403 code and warned me "tweet is over 140 character" anyway.

I know i'm updating a dead post but maybe someone with same issues would see that or someone can get another bright idea with that info.

Thank you anyway.

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