Retweets all at once, how to slow it down?

[ChaseyChaser]

How can I slow down the retweets to once every 15 minutes? Currently it is spamming them out all at once.

[basti2342]

As a short hack you could just add break in the for-loop after line 45. This way the list of Tweets contains only 1 Tweet each time the script is called. Now call it every 15 minutes via crontab (if you're using something Unix-like) or task scheduler (for Windows).

[mikeyny]

@ChaseyChaser Another hack you could use instead of using break is specifying how many tweet you want on line 40

timelineIterator = tweepy.Cursor(api.search, q=hashtag, since_id=savepoint, lang=tweetLanguage).items(5)
# for five twits
timelineIterator = tweepy.Cursor(api.search, q=hashtag, since_id=savepoint, lang=tweetLanguage).items(25)
# for 25 twits