diff --git a/tootbot.py b/tootbot.py
index 1239cfd..c35aa41 100755
--- a/tootbot.py
+++ b/tootbot.py
@@ -9,17 +9,11 @@ import requests
 import re
 import sqlite3
 from datetime import datetime, date, time, timedelta
-import time
-import random
 
 if len(sys.argv) < 4:
     print("Usage: python3 tootbot.py twitter_account mastodon_login mastodon_passwd mastodon_instance")
     sys.exit(1)
 
-random.seed()
-sleep_time = random.randint(0, 10 * 60)
-time.sleep(sleep_time)
-
 # sqlite db to store processed tweets (and corresponding toots ids)
 sql = sqlite3.connect('tootbot.db')
 db = sql.cursor()