diff --git a/zulip/integrations/rss/rss-bot b/zulip/integrations/rss/rss-bot
index 49c82fb62..faea7b780 100755
--- a/zulip/integrations/rss/rss-bot
+++ b/zulip/integrations/rss/rss-bot
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ import sys
 import time
 import urllib.parse
 from html.parser import HTMLParser
-from typing import Any, Dict, List, Optional, Tuple
+from typing import Any, Dict, List
 
 import feedparser
 from typing_extensions import override
@@ -23,7 +23,8 @@ import zulip
 
 VERSION = "0.9"
 RSS_DATA_DIR = os.path.expanduser(os.path.join("~", ".cache", "zulip-rss"))
-OLDNESS_THRESHOLD = 30
+EARLIEST_ENTRY_AGE = 30
+MAX_BATCH_SIZE = 100
 
 usage = """Usage: Send summaries of RSS entries for your favorite feeds to Zulip.
 
@@ -92,6 +93,22 @@ parser.add_argument(
     help="Convert $ to $$ (for KaTeX processing)",
     default=False,
 )
+parser.add_argument(
+    "--max-batch-size",
+    dest="max_batch_size",
+    type=int,
+    help="The maximum number of messages to send at once",
+    default=MAX_BATCH_SIZE,
+    action="store",
+)
+parser.add_argument(
+    "--earliest-entry-age",
+    dest="earliest_entry_age",
+    type=int,
+    help="The earliest date (relative to today) you want to process entries from (in days)",
+    default=EARLIEST_ENTRY_AGE,
+    action="store",
+)
 
 opts = parser.parse_args()
 
@@ -172,6 +189,11 @@ def elide_subject(subject: str) -> str:
     return subject
 
 
+def get_entry_time(entry: Any) -> tuple[float, bool]:
+    entry_time = entry.get("published_parsed", entry.get("updated_parsed"))
+    return (calendar.timegm(entry_time), True) if entry_time else (float("-inf"), False)
+
+
 def send_zulip(entry: Any, feed_name: str) -> Dict[str, Any]:
     body: str = entry.summary
     if opts.unwrap:
@@ -206,58 +228,53 @@ client: zulip.Client = zulip.Client(
     client="ZulipRSS/" + VERSION,
 )
 
-first_message = True
-
 for feed_url in feed_urls:
-    feed_file = os.path.join(opts.data_dir, urllib.parse.urlparse(feed_url).netloc)  # Type: str
+    feed_hashes_file = os.path.join(
+        opts.data_dir, urllib.parse.urlparse(feed_url).netloc
+    )  # Type: str
 
     try:
-        with open(feed_file) as f:
+        with open(feed_hashes_file) as f:
             old_feed_hashes = {line.strip(): True for line in f.readlines()}
     except OSError:
         old_feed_hashes = {}
 
-    new_hashes: List[str] = []
+    unhashed_entries: List[tuple[Any, str, float]] = []
     data = feedparser.parse(feed_url)
+    feed_name: str = data.feed.title or feed_url
+    # Safeguard to not process older entries in unordered feeds
+    entry_threshold = time.time() - opts.earliest_entry_age * 60 * 60 * 24
 
     for entry in data.entries:
         entry_hash = compute_entry_hash(entry)
-        # An entry has either been published or updated.
-        entry_time: Optional[Tuple[int, int]] = entry.get(
-            "published_parsed", entry.get("updated_parsed")
-        )
-        if (
-            entry_time is not None
-            and time.time() - calendar.timegm(entry_time) > OLDNESS_THRESHOLD * 60 * 60 * 24
-        ):
-            # As a safeguard against misbehaving feeds, don't try to process
-            # entries older than some threshold.
+        entry_time, is_time_tagged = get_entry_time(entry)
+        if (is_time_tagged and entry_time < entry_threshold) or entry_hash in old_feed_hashes:
             continue
-        if entry_hash in old_feed_hashes:
-            # We've already seen this. No need to process any older entries.
-            break
-        if not old_feed_hashes and len(new_hashes) >= 3:
-            # On a first run, pick up the 3 most recent entries. An RSS feed has
-            # entries in reverse chronological order.
-            break
-
-        feed_name: str = data.feed.title or feed_url
-
-        response: Dict[str, Any] = send_zulip(entry, feed_name)
-        if response["result"] != "success":
-            logger.error("Error processing %s", feed_url)
-            logger.error("%s", response)
-            if first_message:
-                # This is probably some fundamental problem like the stream not
-                # existing or something being misconfigured, so bail instead of
-                # getting the same error for every RSS entry.
-                log_error_and_exit("Failed to process first message")
-        # Go ahead and move on -- perhaps this entry is corrupt.
-        new_hashes.append(entry_hash)
-        first_message = False
-
-    with open(feed_file, "a") as f:
-        for hash in new_hashes:
-            f.write(hash + "\n")
-
-    logger.info("Sent zulips for %d %s entries", len(new_hashes), feed_url)
+        unhashed_entries.append((entry, entry_hash, entry_time))
+
+    # We process all entries to support unordered feeds,
+    # but post only the latest ones in chronological order.
+    sorted_entries = sorted(unhashed_entries, key=lambda x: x[2])[-opts.max_batch_size :]
+
+    with open(feed_hashes_file, "a") as f:
+        for entry_tuple in sorted_entries:
+            entry, entry_hash, _ = entry_tuple
+
+            response: Dict[str, Any] = send_zulip(entry, feed_name)
+            if response["result"] != "success":
+                logger.error("Error processing %s", feed_url)
+                logger.error("%s", response)
+                if not old_feed_hashes and entry_tuple == sorted_entries[0]:
+                    # This is probably some fundamental problem like the stream not
+                    # existing or something being misconfigured, so bail instead of
+                    # getting the same error for every RSS entry.
+                    log_error_and_exit("Failed to process first message")
+            # Go ahead and move on -- perhaps this entry is corrupt.
+            f.write(entry_hash + "\n")
+
+    logger.info(
+        "Processed %d entries from %s and sent %d zulips",
+        len(unhashed_entries),
+        feed_url,
+        len(sorted_entries),
+    )