[twitter-dev] Re: Automated Tweets

2009-10-29 Thread Damon Clinkscales
Exact dupes sent via the API are dropped. I believe that it's intended to prevent runaway apps from posting the same thing over and over (say if an app had a bug...nevar!). This feature actually saved my bacon once. It's not new, though. It's been that way for at least 18 months. -damon --

[twitter-dev] Re: Automated Tweets

2009-10-29 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 12:48:02PM +0700, Dwi Sasongko Supriyadi wrote: On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 9:40 PM, Jai jaishank...@gmail.com wrote: What is the criteria for dupliate tweets? then how the polling applications works? they may have several tweets with similar text? Duplicate tweets =

[twitter-dev] Re: Automated Tweets

2009-10-29 Thread Jelle De Laender
So it only look at the previous tweet from that user? Or the previous tweet send by your application (via the API) for that user? So for example: If you have 2 static messages A and B, and your app posts tweet A, B, A, B, A, B, ... it shouldn't be a problem? My webapp can tweet 2 static

[twitter-dev] Re: Automated Tweets

2009-10-28 Thread Paul Kinlan
There was some talk recently about Twitter blocking consecutive tweets that are identical. With some of the reasoning that duplicate tweets are a violation of the terms of service. Paul 2009/10/28 Greg gregory.av...@gmail.com Hello, I have an application that sends out a Tweet when a user

[twitter-dev] Re: Automated Tweets

2009-10-28 Thread ryan alford
Twitter recently implemented logic to stop the ability of duplicate tweets. I can't remember if it was ever released what the time period is. On Oct 28, 2009, at 7:24 AM, Greg gregory.av...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I have an application that sends out a Tweet when a user Authorizes the

[twitter-dev] Re: Automated Tweets

2009-10-28 Thread Dwi Sasongko Supriyadi
Hello, On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 6:23 PM, Greg gregory.av...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I have an application that sends out a Tweet when a user Authorizes the Application and asks a Question to a particular user. Does Twitter block continous sending out of a Tweet within a time period? I am

[twitter-dev] Re: Automated Tweets

2009-10-28 Thread Jai
What is the criteria for dupliate tweets? then how the polling applications works? they may have several tweets with similar text? On Oct 28, 8:14 am, Dwi Sasongko Supriyadi ruck...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 6:23 PM, Greg gregory.av...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I

[twitter-dev] Re: Automated Tweets

2009-10-28 Thread Chad Etzel
Hello, Currently we discard a tweet if it is an exact duplicate of the previous tweet, however we still return a success code (200). We are planning on changing this so it will return an error code when a tweet is not posted. -Chad On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Jai jaishank...@gmail.com

[twitter-dev] Re: Automated Tweets

2009-10-28 Thread Dwi Sasongko Supriyadi
Hi, On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 9:40 PM, Jai jaishank...@gmail.com wrote: What is the criteria for dupliate tweets? then how the polling applications works? they may have several tweets with similar text? Duplicate tweets = consecutively, exactly same tweet. tweet1 = foo; tweet2 = bar; rv1 =