Twitter free plan no longer supports direct messaging, logic change required

[sts-ryan-holton]

Hi, I recently posted this, but I think it won't initially be possible resolve as the free plan only supports posting tweets, and not running queries.

I wonder whether the logic can be changed to post a tweet via a username, or some workaround implemented for

/**
     * Get Twitter direct message receiver.
     *
     * @return string|mixed
     *
     * @throws CouldNotSendNotification
     */
    public function getReceiver(TwitterOAuth $twitter): mixed
    {
        if (is_int($this->to)) {
            return $this->to;
        }

        $user = $twitter->get('users/show', [
            'screen_name' => $this->to,
            'include_user_entities' => false,
            'skip_status' => true,
        ]);

        if ($twitter->getLastHttpCode() === 404) {
            throw CouldNotSendNotification::userWasNotFound($twitter->getLastBody());
        }

        return $user->id;
    }

As I need to utilise the approach of sending a message to someone's account via their twitter handle