[twitter-dev] Re: What is the condition of status is duplicated?

2010-06-03 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Taylor, I don't understand. Why would Twitter on the one hand do duplicate checking and on the other hand advise people to add some kind of unique string to the tweet to circumvent the duplicate checking? You're basically saying it's okay for an application to automatically add a randomly

[twitter-dev] Re: What is the condition of status is duplicated?

2010-06-03 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Taylor, It's about creating confusion and uncertainty. Is Twitter not going to suspend a user or an application that generates duplicate content, and appends a randomly generated string of nonsense to each tweet to thwart your duplicate prevention measures? I see this notion of we don't want to