On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Stuart Smith <stuartmartinsm...@btinternet.com> wrote: > Hi Raffi, I read on a blog somewhere that the recurring tweets (which > I believe are the same as tweets with duplicate text) are going to be > allowed i.e. the logic that rejects them will no longer be active. > From what you say this is unlikely to happen. > > The reason I am so interested in this particular test is that I had > been working on a twitter bot that allows you to play the orginal > Colossal Cave text adventure and the user would use a lot of tweets > with text like N, S, E, W etc to indicate a direction to move in (I > was unaware of the duplicate text rejection). This would appear to be > a complete and utter waste of time now - c'est la vie!!! I was going > to put it live tonight but there is probably no point now. > > Cheers, > > On Dec 8, 6:28 pm, Raffi Krikorian <ra...@twitter.com> wrote: >> > Does this 'duplicate text' have a time period for which it is invalid? >> > i.e. how long do I have to wait before sending the same text? >> >> we currently reject tweets that have an exact string match to any >> tweet sent "recently" (a few hours). >> >> > Is this what I have heard called 'recurring tweets'? If so, I read >> > somewhere that they are going to be allowed to re-occur at some point >> > soon - is this correct? >> >> i'm not sure what you mean by "allowed to re-occur at some point >> soon". i don't think we're going to change the logic around duplicate >> tweets, but what we are working on is better error messaging when we >> reject a tweet. >> >> -- >> Raffi Krikorian >> Twitter Platform Teamhttp://twitter.com/raffi >
-- Raffi Krikorian Twitter Platform Team http://twitter.com/raffi
