It sound to me like your code might be making the same API request twice. This would result in the status getting posted and the error message you end up with.
If you are commonly creating statuses with the same text it might just seem like a new status is getting posted when they are not. Abraham ------------- Abraham Williams | Hacker Advocate | abrah.am @abraham <https://twitter.com/abraham> | github.com/abraham | blog.abrah.am This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private. On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 20:18, EastSideDev <eastside...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have an application that uses oAuth to post a tweet on behalf of a > user. I noticed today that when I do a status update, I'm getting a > "Status is a duplicate" error message, when in fact the status posted > correctly. > > I have not changed my code, and I am using the Twitter oAuth library > (same code been working fine since June). Are we experiencing some API > issues? > > -- > Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc > API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi > Issues/Enhancements Tracker: > http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list > Change your membership to this group: > http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk > -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk