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One thing that may be annoying with your bot is retweeting unwanted direct messages from other Twitter bots you may have auto-followed. Some Twitter accounts or bots will automatically send you a direct message to thank you for following them (or to SPAM you with an ad). We have done some research for you to try to help avoid this annoyance. This requires some user intervention and sharing of Twitter passwords with other sites, so we're going to leave this entirely up to the owner.

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Toggles the display of Twitter usernames in a re-tweeted message. For example, if @twitteruser sent a message to @retweetbot, the username would be pre-pended to the message -- "twitteruser: This is a message".

If Show Names is enabled, this will allow you to change how the pre-pended usernames will look. The username variable is %%username%%. The default we have set is "%%username%%:". That will make your bot's tweets look something like "username: Some text". Another example would be "(@%%username%%)". This will turn out like "(@username) Some text". Adding the @ in front of the username will allow it to be clickable in your bot's tweets. Be warned, however, that you MUST have any character in front of the @, otherwise your bot will send an @reply to that user and your other users will not be able to see the tweet.

This popular feature allows your bot's friends to send direct messages to the bot to be re-tweeted. This offers the advantage of not filling up your friends' Twitter streams with @replies. One caveat with this feature is that Twitter seems to put a lower priority on direct messaging, so when Twitter is under a heavy load, direct messages to your bot may be delayed. This is a rare occurance and usually only happens during peak times such as the Super Bowl or Oscars or other large events of that scale.

This allows your friends and followers to send @replies directed to your bot to have them re-tweeted. The only down-side to this is that your friends' Twitter streams will display their @replies. However, during heavy Twitter loads, Twitter seems to place a higher priority on @replies and injects them straight into the Twitter stream. If your users seem to be having problems with direct message delays, have them try @replies instead.

If enabled, this will restrict the users who can retweet through your bot. There are 3 different settings:

• No restrictions - Just as it sounds. There are no restrictions and anyone can retweet through your bot.
• Admins Only - Only users in the Admin Users list will be able to retweet through your bot.
• Admins and Inclusions - If you want more than just the admin users to be able to retweet, you can use this setting. This way you can keep special control like the Twitter Console features to yourself but still allow other users to retweet.

This setting will set up your bot to automagically befriend any new followers. This feature runs every 15 minutes, so it may not immediately start following new followers. Give it a few more minutes and you should see your bot's friend count increase. You may wish to enable this setting to allow your followers to be able to send you direct messages.

If you have auto-following of followers enabled, this will let you set a cap on the number of friends that follower has. Many spam bots will target any bots they discover that will auto-follow. In an effort to try to curb bringing these spam bots into your bot's network, you can set a cap. These bots are typically following a very high number of people, so we think that is probably a good way to tell. The default cap is set at 1,000. This is owner-configurable, though. If you set the cap to 0 (zero), it will simply ignore any cap.

If enabled, you can filter bad or inappropriate words a few different ways. There are 4 different settings:

• No filter - Don't do any filtering. Re-tweet everything as-is.
• Censor word - Replace all but the first and last letters of a word with asterisks (*).
• Block entire post - Simply do not allow the entire post to be re-tweeted.
• Delete word - Re-tweet everything but the offending words. This may cause some tweets to read rather oddly, but it is an option!

If enabled, you can filter links (http://...). There are 3 different settings:

• No filter - Don't do any filtering. Re-tweet everything as-is.
• Delete link - Simply delete the link from the text and that's it.
• Block entire post - Do not allow the post to be re-tweeted.

Enable this setting if you would like for your bot to automagically append hash tags to tweets. The bot is smart enough to detect hash tags already included in the tweet and will not post the same hash tag twice. It will also only append the number of hash tags that it can safely fit at the end of the message while still keeping the entire tweet under the default 140 characters.

If you have enabled the auto-appending of hash tags, this is where you set the hash tags to be appended. Add as many as you would like separated by spaces. It prioritizes them from first to last. See the note above about only appending as many hash tags as it can fit.

This is the number of status updates that the ReTweetBot has posted to Twitter. This number may not reflect what is shown by Twitter. The cases for this are if you made updates with your bot before setting it up with ReTweetBot or you may have deleted updates from Twitter and not through ReTweetBot. In the future, this statistic will reflect what you see in Twitter.

This is the number of users who have actually tweeted through your bot.

This is the number of Twitter users that your bot follows. This number is updated from Twitter once per hour.

This is the number of Twitter users that follows your bot. This number is updated from Twitter once per hour.

Admin users are for the bot owner and any other users that the bot owner trusts to use special features. Such features include the Twitter Console described below. To add users, enter the usernames as they appear in Twitter and click the Add button.

These are users that are allowed to retweet through the bot but do not have access to the special admin features. This list will only appear if you have set the Retweet Restrictions to "Admins and inclusions". To add users, enter the usernames as they appear in Twitter and click the Add button.

Have a user or SPAM bot that keeps posting or following your bot that you don't want? Just visit the User Lists section to add that account to your blacklist. That will prevent any further posting and your bot will no longer auto-follow that user should you choose to block the offending account.

Our "Twitter Console" is the ability to remotely control your bot from another Twitter account. We liken it to a command-line interface like you saw in the old DOS days (or in the current Linux days if you're that kind of geek). You start the command with a set of letters followed by a pipe "|" and other parameters. Commands and examples are below. These commands can be issued via direct message or @reply. We would recommend using direct messages for a majority of these commands so that nobody can see what you're about to make your bot do.

This is where you define what Twitter users are allowed to use your bot's Twitter console. You can add or remove as many accounts as you would like whenever you would like. A check is performed to make sure the Twitter user sending the command to your bot is an authorized admin. If so, your bot will perform the command. Otherwise, it will just toss the command out and never act upon it or re-tweet it.

Enabling this setting (it's enabled by default) will have the bot automatically send you confirmation direct messages whenever it processes a console command that you or an admin issued. It will only send the message to the admin that issued the command.

Are you having problems remembering all of our Twitter console commands? Just send "help|" to your bot using @reply or direct message and it will send you a list of available commands back via direct message.

This is the most basic of basic Twitter console commands. It simply allows you to update your bot's Twitter status without pre-pending your Twitter username to the front of it. To use, simply start a direct message or @reply to your bot with "u|" followed by your message. So if you sent "u|this is some text" to your bot, it would simply say "this is some text" without any usernames or anything in front of the text.

This is the console implementation of the blacklist feature. To use, send a direct message or @reply to your bot in the format of "block|username" where "username" is the user you wish to block. This will prevent that user from ever re-tweeting through your bot and will also un-follow them.

This handy little command allows you to send a direct message to all of the group admins that you have set up. It can, in essence, allow you and your admins to carry on a private conversation amongst yourselves to discuss your bot. To use this command simply send "dma|This is your text" to your bot using @reply or direct message. It will then broadcast "This is your text" to all of the admins you have set up for your bot. The admin who sends out the direct message broadcast will not receive a copy of the message. So, if there is only one admin for your bot, you can't carry on a conversation with yourself!

This command will update the hash tags that are automatically appended to your bot's tweets. This will not enable the auto-appending of hash tags if it is disabled. To use the command, send "hash|#hashtag1 #hashtag2" to your bot via @reply or direct message. Make sure that the hash tags are separated with spaces. See Hash Tags section above for more information.

This command will delete the last X posts by a given user. This is especially handy in case of spammers or automated direct messages getting retweeted by your bot. To use the command, send "del|username X" to your bot via @reply or direct message. Replace "username" with the screen name of the Twitter user, and replace X with the number of posts you would like to have deleted. If you do not pass a number, only the last post will be deleted. You may also pass "all" instead of a number and it will delete all posts by that screen name.

This command is simply an alias of the "block|username" and "del|username all" commands. The "kill|username" command is an alias to this command as well.