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Vortex123

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Twitter and duplicate tweets
« on: February 04, 2010, 02:31:53 AM »
Hi,

I have setup my IOBridge to send I/O notification to my ping.fm email address, which forwards that to my twitter website.

Now I noticed that twitter does not allow duplicate tweets.
Anybody know if I can do something about that?

Regards
Rogier

Ps.
I am using my IO bridge to control our cat door
So I know when cat came through.
Can open/close remotely (even on my WM6.5 with an self written  app)
Close the door when its getting dark.
Close the door when temperature drops below -5C

(Not all is finished jet, but I will post some pics and instruction next week).

WaveJam

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Re: Twitter and duplicate tweets
« Reply #1 on: February 04, 2010, 06:11:22 AM »
Hmmm... How often does it tweet? I ask because I haven't yet seen any probs with the many tweets my io puts out. I just started using a different Twitter name but you can see my latest tweets here - http://twitter.com/aquagadget

Maybe its ping.fm that has the dup tweet restriction?
Pete Raumann
WaveJam Technologies
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http://www.tankedcam.com

Vortex123

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Re: Twitter and duplicate tweets
« Reply #2 on: February 04, 2010, 06:51:59 AM »
Thansk for your response.

Ok I had another try. there seems to be a time limit.
For testing of course my device was sending several tweets in a short time.
Then you get the message: "Whoops! You already said that... please post a new tweet. Learn more here."

Seems to work after a while. That should do it. In "production" the cat door is only opened/closed twice a day.



Vortex123

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Re: Twitter and duplicate tweets
« Reply #3 on: February 05, 2010, 03:35:55 AM »
Hmmm seems to be a long time line  :(

As I only have two line I want to update it says its duplicate. Even after 12 hours :(

iobridge

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Re: Twitter and duplicate tweets
« Reply #4 on: February 05, 2010, 09:14:47 AM »
%%date%% in the message will print out the time date stamp. Maybe you can add that to the end of the message so that each message will be unique.
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Vortex123

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Re: Twitter and duplicate tweets
« Reply #5 on: February 06, 2010, 02:40:04 AM »
I like that idea.
Unfortunately it doesn't seem to work.  :(

Who should print out this command to the time date stamp in my case?
IoBridge server, Ping.fm or Twitter?

Thanks and have a nice weekend.

Ps. Cats don't seem to care about being controlled remotely and being monitored on the internet *ggg*