"r-t------------- abraham" works to retweet people. On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 14:49, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> It seams like the validation is not properly making sure that "RT" has a > space after it. > > Abraham > > > On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 02:44, ronenpinko <ronenpi...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> it's clearly a bug. >> >> the status update method returns (on success) the newly created >> status. I rely on this status for the application state. >> what our servers get when updating with "RT..." are older unrelated >> tweets (days ago) and the statuses never gets published on twitter. >> >> I tried updating a little from the web. what goes on there is totally >> voodoo. I get different error messages. >> try updating this "RT... hello" you'll probably get a "hello hasn't >> published any tweets yet" >> I tried random messages like "RT... rth984th34" and it made me retweet >> some guy I don't even know. >> >> I don't know if the system treats it like SMS or not. doesn't matter. >> it's a bug. >> I shouldn't be getting unrelated tweets as a response to a status >> update no matter what. >> I shouldn't be retweeting people I don't know on sending malformed >> status updates. >> >> >> >> On Dec 8, 8:34 pm, Raffi Krikorian <ra...@twitter.com> wrote: >> > i think that's precisely it. the twitter API follows (mostly) the >> > same commands that are available over SMS. if you send a tweet that >> > starts with "RT", then the API will assume you are attempting to do a >> > native RT. >> > >> > On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Cameron Kaiser <spec...@floodgap.com> >> wrote: >> > >> I just came across a weird bug. >> > >> When updating statuses with the text "RT..." included, unexpected >> > >> things happen. >> > >> > > If it's first position in a line, it's probably being seen as an SMS >> > > command (there is an RT SMS command). >> > >> > > -- >> > > ------------------------------------ personal: >> http://www.cameronkaiser.com/-- >> > > Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems *www.floodgap.com* >> ckai...@floodgap.com >> > > -- Another visitor. Stay awhile. Stay forever! -- Professor Elvin >> Atombender -- >> > >> > -- >> > Raffi Krikorian >> > Twitter Platform Teamhttp://twitter.com/raffi >> > > > > -- > Abraham Williams | Community Evangelist | http://web608.org > Project | Intersect | http://intersect.labs.poseurtech.com > Hacker | http://abrah.am | http://twitter.com/abraham > This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private. > Sent from Madison, WI, United States > -- Abraham Williams | Community Evangelist | http://web608.org Project | Intersect | http://intersect.labs.poseurtech.com Hacker | http://abrah.am | http://twitter.com/abraham This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private. Sent from Madison, WI, United States
