[twitter-dev] Comparing Posted Tweet to Current Status in PHP

Does anyone have a way to compare these two strings in PHP? I have tried 3 different ways of comparing strings and they all fail. Even more so recently. Looking for a solid way to see if a tweet was accepted by the API or not.

[twitter-dev] Re: source name has switch to web

Both of my OAuth applications are also showing as being from web today... not using source parameter.

[twitter-dev] profile views count against limit?

is this correct? does someone viewing your profile count against your 100 accesses? seems to me that is what is happening.