> as noted by other people on this list, twitter is currently rejecting > tweets that match either your last update, or an update you recently > sent. unfortunately, the API is currently silently failing but it is > on the short list to have the API return an error code instead.
Can you confirm what "match" means? Is it "same character sequence" or is it "similar character sequence"? I ask because John Kalucki wrote "Is the posted status similar to any other status created by that user?" above in response to a question about duplicate rejection. Thanks, -andy On Nov 3, 3:35 pm, Raffi Krikorian <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Is the posted status similar to any other status created by that > >> user? > > > Does the above imply that similar will trigger the dup detector? > > > Argh! > > > Please don't tell me that you're now rejecting similar tweets.... > > > Url shorteners can easily generate similar urls, so if someone is in > > the habit of tweeting "check this out" followed by a shortened url, > > the tweet text is likely to be similar even though the actual url is > > different. > > > Heck, urls that are similar often point to very different web pages. > > > There are lots of other cases where similar tweets can actually be > > very different, and thus should not be rejected as "duplicates". > > (I've heard of a project that tweets data that is guaranteed to be > > unique but is reasonably likely to be similar because of aggressive > > encoding.) > > as noted by other people on this list, twitter is currently rejecting > tweets that match either your last update, or an update you recently > sent. unfortunately, the API is currently silently failing but it is > on the short list to have the API return an error code instead. > > -- > Raffi Krikorian > Twitter Platform Team > [email protected] | @raffi- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text -
