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akr reported a problem in Twitter on October 03, 2008 02:25:

I cannot see some followings in my friends timeline.

It seems that the problem has been happening since around 01:00 3rd Oct.

There are a lot of people who is facing the same problem.

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=ti...

http://buzztter.com/ja/k/抜け
'抜け' means 'leak' in Japanese. They say there are a lot of leaks.

akr started following the problem "My account is crosswired with someone else" in Twitter.

akr started following the question "I don't see my latest replies!" in Twitter.

akr marked one of carocat's replies in Twitter as useful. carocat replied to the problem "My timeline don't show new tweets of others".

A comment on the problem "My timeline don't show new tweets of others" in Twitter:

Thanks – akr, on September 20, 2008 06:22

akr replied on September 20, 2008 05:49 to the problem "My timeline don't show new tweets of others" in Twitter:

I have the same problem too and there seems to be a lot of people http://search.twitter.com/search?q=ti... .

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akr started following the problem "Track bot hits API Limit for Direct Messages" in Twitter.

akr started following the idea "Approving Followers To Reduce SPAM" in Twitter.

akr started following the problem "My timeline is frozen, even though the people I follow are tweeting." in Twitter.

akr started following the question "Twitter is... ah, never mind." in Twitter.

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akr replied on May 02, 2008 02:44 to the problem "500 Internal Server Errors" in Twitter:

thank you @twitter_status for the announce.

akr started following the problem "500 Internal Server Errors" in Twitter.

akr replied on April 22, 2008 00:18 to the problem "Web not posting tweets from people I follow" in Twitter:

It's nice to see the announce on the web. Thanks.

akr replied on April 19, 2008 22:50 to the problem "Web not posting tweets from people I follow" in Twitter:

same here. occurred in the web and the api. im seems to be working.

akr started following the problem "Web not posting tweets from people I follow" in Twitter.

akr replied on March 22, 2008 10:41 to the idea "request for ignore commands feature for API /statuses/update" in Twitter:

mdy, sounds nice idea. I've posted to the group as you suggested. Thank you.

akr shared an idea in Twitter on March 14, 2008 22:30:

request for ignore commands feature for API /statuses/update

Hello,

It would be nice that the API /statuses/update.format has a feature to ignore Twitter commands such as fav and whois.

For example:
"status=w%20Hello&command=false" just post "w Hello" as it is.

* Background
I'm developing my API client and having a problem with the commands.

As far as I know only ASCII characters are searched to detect commands, then the combination of Japanese characters and a command, for example, "?????w" (suppose ???? are Japanese characters) is interpreted as just "whois" without arguments. (w is an abbreviation of whois). As a result of that, it ends up as a failure of the post operation.

You can see this behavior by posting with "?????w" from Twitter web site.

The failure is notified with an error message when you use the web interface. However it's not notified to API client.

Note that "w" has a meaning of "laughing" among Japanese net users. The combinations of some Japanese characters and "w" are frequently used. So this behavior is not convenient.

To solve this problem, it's nice that the API /statuses/update.format has a feature to ignore the commands.

For example:

command=false - means ignore commands

Usage:

status=?????w&command=false

Result:
"?????w" is posted as it is.

Thanks,
Akira