We do ignore subsequent identical messages. I'll update the documentation.
On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 10:37, Corey Menscher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I'm creating a Java app that updates my Twitter account's status on a
> certain event. I'm able to update the status once (i.e. "Hello
> World!"), but when I submit subsequent statuses with the identical
> text, my Twitter feed does not get updated When I change the text
> slightly ("Hello World 2!"), the update does get added to my stream.
> I am receiving HTTP response code 200's on all my requests. I also
> tested whether it was a frequency limit, but I'm able to update unique
> statuses in fairly rapid succession (i.e. 2 or 3 within ten seconds).
>
> Does Twitter ignore subsequent identical posts? The API doc doesn't
> mention this. I'm not setting a "in_reply_to_status_id" parameter or
> anything. Would that help? I'd prefer not to do that because I
> haven't been able to parse the content of the request other than the
> response codes.
>
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