Is it possible to add in options for how often to check a feed, and how many items to publish at once? Or even adding an option to put a definable delay between tweets when there are multiple items added to a feed?

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cleaver commented

There is nothing like that to control the timing. The timing would be determined by cron. (For more info on setting up cron, see: http://drupal.org/getting-started/6/install/cron)

Unfortunately, right now there is a limit because I am relying on the core Aggregator module for feeds and the shortest time they check would be every 15 minutes. Most admins would not want to run cron more often, for performance reasons.

I'm not sure how I would address this feature, specifically putting a delay between tweets. What happens if they queue up faster than they can be tweeted? At the moment, the module will spew out all the tweets in each feed since the last cron run.

If you have ideas on what would work as far as timing, let me know. I might just have to look at a way to do scheduled actions more frequently than cron would normally do. (And I'm not sure how to do that at this moment.)

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alienseer23 commented

Feeds get checked every 15 minutes with cron, or whenever feeds are scheduled to update within cron's limit, & when the feed updates, Tweet RSS tweets if there is a new item. Duh,my brain shut down on that one.

The basic idea behind this request was to find a way to prevent flooding if there are multiple updates at the same time. I will try to find a solution as well. Not having strong coding skills is a bit of a problem for me, here. But I am capable of trouble shooting and working around problems/stumbling blocks in existing code.

Thanks for the quick response.

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alienseer23 commented

What about an option to limit the amount of simultaneous posts to prevent flooding (especially handy when initially setting up the module!)?