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?
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Taylor Singletary
Developer Advocate, Twitter
http://twitter.com/episod
