Frequently asked questions
Here's what's happening. You have things to say to Elon, but he's
a busy guy, so he probably doesn't see your tweets. It's not
anyone's fault. You just didn't tweet at the right time.
That's
where this whole thing comes in. You tell us what you want to tell
the man, and we wait until we're pretty sure he's online. And then
we send your tweet, from your account. Simple!
Ok so that probably wasn't actually your next question.
It actually does cost something, but for a good reason. The cost
helps by naturally rate limiting the amount of tweets we need to
send. The cost also informs us to know which tweet should send
first.
Right, you pay what you want, and that price you paid puts you in the queue. We send tweets off the queue ordered by price, sending the highest valued tweets first.
Well, pay what you can to get on the queue, and if your tweet is something the community finds worthwhile, others can chip in to raise the bounty on the tweet and move it up the queue.
Ok so maybe you weren't going to ask that one either.
Payments are only taken through Bitcoin's Lightning network. Bitcoin
is... well that's beyond the scope of this FAQ. The Lightning
network sits on top of Bitcoin and fascilitates quick and cheap
transactions. If you don't know about it, I'm sure you can Google it
and figure it out pretty quickly.
You click theNew Tweetbutton and we redirect you to Twitter. You have to authorize our
app to have access to tweet on your behalf. Then Twitter will send
you back here and you can begin crafting your tweet. Once you're
done, you'll specify a price denominated in sats, the smallest
unit of a bitcoin. There isn't a minimum price, but some wallets
will not let you send transactions of 1 sat. 10 sats is a pretty
safe low bet, but you do you.
Once you've filled out the tweet and the price, click
theSubmit and Fundbutton. That will generate a lightning invoice and a QR code will
pop up. If you're using a lightning wallet mobile app you can just
scan that QR with your phone and the wallet app will ask you to
confirm the details. If you're on your phone already trying to do
this, you probably can't scan your own phone screen. So in that
case there's a text version of the lightning invoice below the QR
code that you can copy and paste into your wallet app.
Once you've paid the lightning invoice you'll be taken to the new
tweets view where you can see the list of tweets on the queue
ordered by how recently they were added. And that's it! You can
navigate over toTop to see the tweets ordered by bounty. We'll
keep sending the top tweet every time Elon tweets.
Great question! No we don't. We only send tweets when he tweets a non-retweet, non-reply tweet. So new fresh, stand on their own, tweets. If the volume of tweets in our queues gets to be too large, I reserve the right to revisit this policy.