From 2bbdfede1175fce02e4a7aed55535b9c45b17061 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Felix Ableitner <me@nutomic.com>
Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2019 14:46:13 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Fix conditional to detect retweets

---
 tootbot.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tootbot.py b/tootbot.py
index 8821c93..2e67508 100755
--- a/tootbot.py
+++ b/tootbot.py
@@ -72,7 +72,8 @@ for t in reversed(d.entries[0:5]):
                 print("ERROR: First Login Failed!")
                 sys.exit(1)
 
-        if t.author != '(%s)' % twitter:
+        # t.author is formatted like (@user) for some weird reason
+        if re.sub('[()@]', '', t.author) != twitter:
             # skip retweets
             continue