awesome, I didn't even know that :) I'll be sure to mention that next
someone accuses Hahlo of "double posting"
On Dec 7, 6:29 am, "Alex Payne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> We do ignore subsequent identical messages. I'll update the documentation.
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> On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 10:37, Corey Menscher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > 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.
>
> --
> Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc.http://twitter.com/al3x
