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Good morning! These days, I’ve been working on migrating the parts that used the twitteroauth library to Laravel. I think it was a good decision to migrate because it made it easier to incorporate new features. I wish I had initially started with Laravel for this.

Here are some technical hints, but you should be able to find more detailed methods by searching online:

1. Install twitteroauth in Laravel’s vendor directory.
2. Create a job using the command php artisan make:job YourPreferredName (e.g., ProcessPodcast).
3. Register the job in the scheduler.
4. Configure cron (in my case, * * * * * php /path/to/artisan schedule:run >> /dev/null 2>&1).

With this setup, it will tweet at the specified time. I used to be able to retweet, but it seems my Twitter bot has been flagged, and now I can only tweet. So I’m doing my best with just tweeting.

Concerns about Twitter: I can’t help but think that it’s only a matter of time before either Jack Dorsey leaves or Twitter gets acquired and disappears. Even with a new CEO, I don’t expect things to improve immediately, and as long as Jack Dorsey remains, I believe it will continue to be problematic. Twitter has lost some of its appeal for individual developers who can no longer enjoy developing on the platform. The various services that were created using Twitter’s API in the past were possible because Twitter was developer-friendly.