[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 generated string of nonsense to each tweet, to ensure
it is unique and will thwart Twitter's duplication content prevention
measures.

Isn't that a perfect exercise in self-defeat, or what the military
folks call chickenshit?

On Jun 3, 12:49 pm, Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com
wrote:
 We tune the duplicate tweet detection algorithm regularly, so it's difficult
 to say with any hard rules at what point a tweet will be considered a
 duplicate -- it's not necessarily time-based and more tuned toward the
 contents of the last few tweets issued by the user account. If you're use
 case is such that you'd be issuing the same tweet multiple times, you might
 want to provide some kind of unique string to each tweet, or otherwise
 insure that the tweet is not a duplicate.

 Taylor Singletary
 Developer Advocate, Twitterhttp://twitter.com/episod



 On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 12:10 AM, kimtree i...@kimtree.net wrote:

   I have no idea to understand condition of status is duplicated.
   status is duplicated condition is update same tweet in few minutes?
  or a day?
   I want to know exact condition.  Have any Ideas?


[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 tell you how to use Twitter
more and more. It also came to out of the advertisement banning thing
the other day.

In principle it is good. But, to what extent is Twitter really serious
about that? Every one of the Twitter rules tells me and everyone else
how we must and mustn't use Twitter.

On Jun 3, 2:54 pm, Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com
wrote:
 People use Twitter differently. Duplicate prevention is mainly a
 protection for standard user use cases and spam protection. There is
 value in programmatic use of Twitter that is outside of typical user
 experiences, and there are corner cases where duplicate tweets can be
 useful.  I'm not here to tell you how to use Twitter.





 On Thursday, June 3, 2010, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote:
  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 generated string of nonsense to each tweet, to ensure
  it is unique and will thwart Twitter's duplication content prevention
  measures.

  Isn't that a perfect exercise in self-defeat, or what the military
  folks call chickenshit?

  On Jun 3, 12:49 pm, Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com
  wrote:
  We tune the duplicate tweet detection algorithm regularly, so it's 
  difficult
  to say with any hard rules at what point a tweet will be considered a
  duplicate -- it's not necessarily time-based and more tuned toward the
  contents of the last few tweets issued by the user account. If you're use
  case is such that you'd be issuing the same tweet multiple times, you might
  want to provide some kind of unique string to each tweet, or otherwise
  insure that the tweet is not a duplicate.

  Taylor Singletary
  Developer Advocate, Twitterhttp://twitter.com/episod

  On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 12:10 AM, kimtree i...@kimtree.net wrote:

    I have no idea to understand condition of status is duplicated.
    status is duplicated condition is update same tweet in few minutes?
   or a day?
    I want to know exact condition.  Have any Ideas?

 --
 Taylor Singletary
 Developer Advocate, Twitterhttp://twitter.com/episod