Really interesting take on software engineering, good read.

Hm it depends how much the user tweets about these topics, if at all. I'd probably say ~5k and you'd start getting decent results.

I built this in 24 hours to test that I could do it. The code was not meant to be pretty, it wasn't meant to be reusable. It was made as a "hack". I use hacker not to portray myself as a systems-infiltrator but in the sense of hackathons and building things quickly and roughly. If this was meant to be a finished project of course the code would be much cleaner, however the class does the job and that was what I intended to build with this, a POC.

Glad you liked it, I'll try and do that at some point.

Fixed this I think!

In touch with you now! Look forward to what comes of this, thanks for taking the time to respond here too!

Nice move from Uber and congrats

Congrats!!

Still a private API. I can imagine finding an unusual account like mine is quite simple and wouldn't need automating.

I'd imagine they already have the code for a similar service.

I can agree with you, I understand why I was banned and I can see it is a valid response to the situation. I just want to make sure (if Uber have read this) that they understand why I did it and what caused the spike.

That realtime feel!