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It is to ensure that the updates get mirrored onto twitter, where exact duplicates can't be posted.
by Fuzzwah 8y ago
It is to ensure that the updates get mirrored onto twitter, where exact duplicates can't be posted.
- hiccuphippo 8y agoIsn't it enough to delete the older tweet? Or maybe just add a timestamp to the message. Off-Topic: If it's not possible to write a twit with the exact text from a deleted twit, then a way to prove someone wrote a twit and then deleted it would be to have them try to write it again.
- askmike 8y agoDeleting tweets is a terrible workaround. Once github start tweeting and people start linking to those tweets they can't go ahead and delete them 50 minutes later..
- owl57 8y agoRe: off-topic: You have to do it fast. You certainly can tweet a lot of identical tweets if you aren't in a hurry: there is a "Rock in the forest"[1] that tweets "Nothing happened today" (in Russian) every day for several years, and most of the time the text is exactly the same. Interestingly enough, the time of tweet varies widely from day to day, so it looks like a human or a program specifically made to imitate one. [1] https://twitter.com/kamen_v_lesu https://twitter.com/kamen_v_lesu
- mehrdadn 8y agoThey can't alternate?
- OJFord 8y agoFor several hours it was alternating.
- hnarn 8y agoIf you include a unique hashtag, would the message be considered unique? In that case, you could include the epoch timestamp as a hashtag :-)
- drb91 8y agoOr even just prefix the tweet with the update ordinal.