Twitter API Login Failure – Implement Retry Mechanism with Exponential Backoff

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Twitter API Login Failure and Recovery

Description

We're encountering an issue where the Twitter API sometimes fails to log in, triggering the error "Failed to initialize Twitter Api - not logged in". The current implementation does not attempt to recover from transient login failures, it manually makes a second attempt right after the first failure and if this fails doesn't try again.

2025-02-06 12:06:48.921 | INFO    | [twitter-api] | Loading existing cookies
2025-02-06 12:06:48.932 | INFO    | [twitter-api] | Loaded existing cookies from file
2025-02-06 12:06:49.120 | INFO    | [twitter-api] | Login status: false
2025-02-06 12:06:49.121 | INFO    | [twitter-api] | Previous cookies is likely expired or invalid, logging in again
2025-02-06 12:06:49.122 | INFO    | [twitter-api] | No existing cookies found, proceeding with login

Expected Behavior

Instead of failing immediately, the login process should implement a retry mechanism that uses exponential backoff. This would help mitigate issues caused by intermittent network problems or temporary credential issues. For example, if a login attempt fails, the system should wait (e.g., 1s, 2s, 4s, etc.) and try again for a configurable number of retries before ultimately reporting a failure.