re-tweeting of @replies is causing confusion - need a leading character
Feed-tweet bot is confusing people when it re-tweets tweets starting with "@". Need to be able to add a leading character of some sort.
For example, I have not sent any tweets to anyone, yet my @Replies tab is full of stuff like this...
...because the tweets coming from my bot come out like this...
If we could at least have the option to insert a leading character, whether fixed or of our choosing so that the message wouldn't appear to be an @reply to the person whose name follows the @ sign, that would help. If not a traditional "RT @username:", then perhaps an ">" or "*" before the rest of the tweet?
Some folks might be able to filter out the @replies so they don't get re-tweeted at all, but that would largely defeat the purpose of what I'm trying to do since I'm re-tweeting tweets of gratitude, which tend to consist primarily of @ replies. :)
Thanks!
For example, I have not sent any tweets to anyone, yet my @Replies tab is full of stuff like this...
...because the tweets coming from my bot come out like this...
If we could at least have the option to insert a leading character, whether fixed or of our choosing so that the message wouldn't appear to be an @reply to the person whose name follows the @ sign, that would help. If not a traditional "RT @username:", then perhaps an ">" or "*" before the rest of the tweet?
Some folks might be able to filter out the @replies so they don't get re-tweeted at all, but that would largely defeat the purpose of what I'm trying to do since I'm re-tweeting tweets of gratitude, which tend to consist primarily of @ replies. :)
Thanks!
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Inappropriate?If anyone else has this issue, @ me on twitter ( http://twitter.com/maczter ) and I'll point you in the right direction with a friend who has some Yahoo Pipes code that functions as a nice workaround for this issue. It tacks RT @username: in front of each retweet.
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Inappropriate?I think this might have something to do with the fact that twitter's RSS has the same title and body.
You may need something more advanced than a simple RSS bot - check out this post: http://bit.ly/1o88U1
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