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diff --git a/tweet-grab b/tweet-grab
index 1d4fd9f..e6770a4 100755
--- a/tweet-grab
+++ b/tweet-grab
@@ -1,8 +1,12 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env sh
-# Grabs tweets and writes them to a file
+# Grabs tweets and writes them to a file. Avoids using the twitter API by
+# scrapping nitter.net (or any other nitter instance) which can easily be
+# scraped, unlike the intentionally crippled twitter.com. See the output of
+# this script at https://ishaan.bhojwani.org
 
 FILE=/root/tweets/index.html
 LOGFILE=/root/tweets/cron.log
+
 > $FILE
 curl https://nitter.net/keshinko | grep tweet-content | head -n 1 | sed -e 's/<[^>]*>//g' -e 's/^[ \t]*\(.*$\)/\1/' >> $FILE
 tail -n 1000 $LOGFILE > $LOGFILE