#4 Default sleep period is too short for Twitter.com

[Jon The Nice Guy]

Twitter will only permit 100 queries in 60 minutes. As a result, with the default settings (sleep 10 seconds between requests) on the smsToLaconica script, you will get 10 minutes of checks, followed by 50 minutes of no checks.

Short term work-around is to increase sleep from 10 to 60. Longer term, a patch needs to be written to cover both Modem checks (for which 10 seconds is not a problem) and Feed checks (for which 60 seconds would be more acceptable.