Can I suggest: A RepeatTweet API. Permit the delivery of marked duplicate tweets on the Twitter side, with an API to allow external apps/services to integrate it.
The system could permit (and only permit) RepeatTweets with a <DuplicateOf> tag indicating the duplicated tweet, sent through the API. This would allow Search to filter out duplicates, and other apps could filter out duplicates that the user has already seen/marked as read. This would also allow external apps/services to provide the scheduling. RepeatTweets could be rate-limited (say 5 per 24h per account) to reduce spam. This would facilitate most of the usage cases I've read in this thread -- except emergency services, where duplicated tweets shouldn't be filtered out because the duplicate text refers to a new/changed condition. Perhaps a whitelist of such emergency services should be exempted from the exiting duplicate filters. Regards, Sean Lindsay On Oct 16, 5:01 pm, John Kalucki <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't know about paygrade, but more than a few Twitter employees > follow i80chains during the season. We hear you. I just don't know > what to suggest be done about the situation.
