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Jamie Matthews replied on October 12, 2009 11:46 to the problem "Stories get posted twice" in twitterfeed:

Hi Mario,

I'm having a similar problem - for some reason, some of the items in the "TODAY" feed on twitter.com/brightongigs seems to be getting posted twice. It's not quite every item, but most of them. They're getting different bit.ly URLs which both point to the same "real" URL (the last.fm event page).

I've tried adding a duplicate filter to the Yahoo Pipe that feeds it (so the feed definitely only contains one copy of each item). I've also tried running the feed through Feedburner before passing it on to Twitterfeed. Neither seems to have helped.

The feed is set to "Post new items based on GUID" and the GUID of each item is its last.fm URL, so these should definitely be unique. I'm a bit stumped!

Thanks in advance for any help.

Jamie

Jamie Matthews replied on July 19, 2009 22:40 to the question "Slug & bubble restrictions?" in hereit.is:

You're absolutely right - I was only accepting letters, numbers and underscores. A little regex wrangling and I've added dashes to the list of acceptable characters. Let me know if it works!

Jamie Matthews replied on July 19, 2009 22:27 to the idea "Formatting for Bubbles?" in hereit.is:

Thanks for the suggestion - that would certainly be a nice addition, but it's a little tricky, as one has to be careful about which markup to accept in order to avoid nasty JavaScript attacks. Perhaps just stripping out script tags would be enough, or maybe I could implement a really basic subset of BBCode or Markdown. I'll bear it in mind and let you know if I get some time to work on it.

Jamie Matthews replied on July 19, 2009 17:07 to the question "Slug & bubble restrictions?" in hereit.is:

Oops, forgot to address the bubble. Any characters can be used in the bubble, although anything unusual will be replaced with the equivalent HTML entity, to avoid any sort of XSS attacks. Again, no limit on the length, so whatever will fit in the bubble I suppose. Let me know if you think it'd be more useful for you if I formalised this stuff - I can easily add limits to the validation before the placemark is created.

Jamie Matthews replied on July 19, 2009 17:05 to the question "Slug & bubble restrictions?" in hereit.is:

Hi Dave,

The slug can only contain letters, numbers, dashes and underscores. There's no particular limit on the length, so just keep it within reason I suppose!

Jamie Matthews replied on June 24, 2009 23:21 to the question "shortcut lifespan" in hereit.is:

Ooh, my first feedback! Cheers!

As Tim Berners Lee says here, “A cool URI is one which does not change.” So, the shortcuts don't have a finite lifespan - they last forever. Yes, this means that some of the really good ones might get snapped up, but that's better than someone visiting an old URI and finding the location it points to has changed!

j4mie replied on September 03, 2008 16:06 to the question "Yahoo Pipes feed stopped working" in twitterfeed:

Hi Mario,

Just wondering if you ever got a reply from Yahoo! about this? The feed still gives an error in "my twitter feeds," but occasionally posts get through - which means tweets showing up at strange times. Seems very odd..

j4mie replied on August 14, 2008 08:57 to the question "Yahoo Pipes feed stopped working" in twitterfeed:

Strange. My Y! Pipes feed was posted to my Twitter account this morning. However, the feed again shows a "couldn't parse this feed" error in the "My feeds" list on Twitterfeed.

Did Yahoo *temporarily* unblock Twitterfeed and then block it again? How odd.

Thanks for your help with this, Mario.

j4mie asked a question in twitterfeed on August 10, 2008 00:53:

Yahoo Pipes feed stopped working

Hi,

I set up a filter for a feed in Yahoo Pipes a couple of weeks ago, and it's been working fine since then. However, it's suddenly stopped working, with the error "Couldn't parse the feed". The feed seems to work fine when I open it in Safari.

The feed is: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run...

And the account being posted to is www.twitter.com/brightongigs

Thanks for any help.

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