Is there a way to automatically DM message around 200 people on twitter?

January 27, 2022 1:08 PM

Is there a way to automatically DM message around 200 people on twitter on a weekly basis?

I post a weekly trivia question on Twitter. In the announcement post, I said that people could like the post to get a reminder DM about the trivia question. Annoyingly, about 200 people have asked for this reminder. I used to send these messages manually, but I would like to automate this if possible.

Is there a way to send a message once a week to a couple hundred of opt-in people without doing it manually? I don't want to run afoul of any Twitter spam filters, but I would like to keep sending these reminders if possible.

posted by andoatnp to Computers & Internet (6 answers total)

This sounds like something Twitter would try to actively discourage, however useful it might be in your case.

Pardon me if this is too obvious and you’ve already discarded it as an option, but: what about just running a Twitter account that only posts these reminders, and people can just subscribe to that, opt in to notifications for new tweets (the little bell icon), or keep up with it in whatever other way they like?
posted by Ryon at 7:25 PM on January 27, 2022 [4 favorites]

Simpler still, just create an account that posts only the actual trivia questions, to which people can subscribe or get notifications from as above. A notification is a reminder, one that costs you zero time to maintain over and above what it already takes to post the questions.
posted by flabdablet at 8:29 PM on January 27, 2022 [1 favorite]

Response by poster: Thank you for the suggestions, but for reasons I can't explain, the weekly trivia question needs to come from an account which is active with a bunch of other stuff, so the twitter notification settings won't work.
posted by andoatnp at 8:51 PM on January 27, 2022

the weekly trivia question needs to come from an account which is active with a bunch of other stuff

Fair enough. But what stops you going the route recommended by Ryon, where only the reminders and not the questions themselves come from a different account?
posted by flabdablet at 9:03 PM on January 27, 2022

I think you can create a Twitter community to do this — create a “community” and add everyone
posted by shaademaan at 4:11 AM on January 28, 2022

A quick Google for “Twitter DM bot” gave a good number of results, especially some with “free” in the title.
posted by itesser at 8:54 AM on January 28, 2022