Hi K, A great place to get information on Twitter-wide policies, limits, and just about everything else is our help center at http://help.center.com
Here are two relevant articles on that subject: Our rules & best practices on automation: http://support.twitter.com/articles/76915-automation-rules-and-best-practices About your specific action: http://support.twitter.com/articles/68809-trying-to-tweet-produces-a-duplicate-text-error We don't publish the exact time frames required for waiting before issuing a duplicate tweet; it changes. Thanks, Taylor On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 9:04 PM, K <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > at my work I am developing an app to post tweets on Twitter. While > testing the app, I noticed that I keep getting "forbidden" error if I > tried to tweet same message over and over again. So I went to the > Twitter site to tweet directly and it looks like even from Twitter.com > I cannot repeat the same tweets made within past few hours. I presume > this is a feature to prevent abuse, but I cannot find any > documentation anywhere:( I need to be able to explain to my customer > this limitation though.. does anyone know where can I find an > "official" information about this, which contains information about > how many hours after original tweet that the same message can be > tweeted again? > Thanks for your help!! > K >
