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Originally posted by giveitdeath
Why not make it automated so it opens one convo at a time, sends the message, then closes the convo and repeats the process for every contact online. Would that work?

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No that wouldn't, the problem is a limit of how many total messages can be sent in a finite amount of time.  I am not sure of the actual limit, but I do know that your method will not work.  The only way to do it would be to send the message to a small group of people, wait a little, then move onto the next group, wait, so on and so forth.  However even with this method there lies the problem that you may be sending messages while the process is going or even making another one of these mass messages which would mean that you have to have a larger allowance for the groups which means it all takes longer.  There is also another problem whereby people can go offline before you send them the message or others come online and ruin the groupings and some people get sent the message twice (assuming you were to get the contacts again from the contact list each time to overcome the offline problem).

In short, it may be possible to do what you ask but it is a lot of effort and A LOT of thought has to go into it to account for all possibilities and personally I do not see much gain out of doing such a thing other than for advertising purposes which I disagree with anyway (say NO to SPAM).