It looks like the following tweets will not be possible:
*
* word
All other uses of the single and double asterisk are acceptable. So,
Alexander, it looks like you are right in wanting ** as your
identifying string. That can be used with no problems. I would
recommend that we stick with that in any position in a tweet and not
even tell people about using a single asterisk.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Matt Harris <thematthar...@twitter.com>
Date: Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 8:57 PM
Subject: Re: [twitter-dev] API fails when tweeting with single asterisk
To: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com
Hi Adam,
That's correct, a tweet cannot be just a "*" or a "* word". Something
like "**" or "* html {" would be fine though.
Best,
@themattharris
Developer Advocate, Twitter
http://twitter.com/themattharris
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 5:29 PM, Adam Green <140...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> So I can assume that * and * word will remain unavailable for normal tweeting?
>
> On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 7:22 PM, Matt Harris <thematthar...@twitter.com> wrote:
> > Hey Adam,
> > The status update you are sending is part of the SMS command set.
> > http://support.twitter.com/articles/14020-about-twitter-sms-commands
> > It corresponds to the FAV command and is the alias for it. It used to be
> > documented but for some reason isn't there at the moment. I've asked the
> > support team to make sure it is added.
> > Best,
> > @themattharris
> > Developer Advocate, Twitter
> > http://twitter.com/themattharris
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 4:09 PM, Adam Green <140...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> There are some very strange behaviors when using the statuses/update
> >> API call to send a tweet with a single asterisk.
> >>
> >> 1. If you send a tweet with just a single asterisk:
> >> *
> >>
> >> The API returns 200 and the response string contains the previous good
> >> tweet in the timeline. No new tweet with an asterisk appears in the
> >> timeline. Repeating this API call results in the same behavior.
> >>
> >> 2. If you send a statuses/update with a single asterisk followed by a
> >> single word:
> >> * test
> >>
> >> The first time you do this, the API returns 200 and the response
> >> string contains the previous good tweet in the timeline. No new tweet
> >> with the string sent to the API appears in the timeline. If you repeat
> >> the same API call, the API returns 500 and the response string has an
> >> HTML page that something strange happened:
> >> <h2>Something is technically wrong.</h2>
> >> <p>Thanks for noticing we're going to fix it up and have things back
> >> to normal soon.</p>
> >>
> >> No other use of the asterisk has a problem that I can find. These bad
> >> tweet strings cause similar problems on Twitter.com.
> >>
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>
>
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