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Joe replied on December 15, 2009 23:54 to the problem "iPhone App Crashing Since Spot Deletion" in Gowalla:
Created a spot from the iPhone app, deleted it from a web browser. The iPhone app always crashes when logging in. Restarting, uninstalling restarting installing and restarting, etc doesn't help on a 3GS.-
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Joe reported a problem in Twitter on October 14, 2009 20:20:
Multiple Tweets & Automatic Spam Filtering?I've been testing Gowalla, which posts my location to my Twitter account as a tweet.
If I check-in to a location on Gowalla it posts a tweet with brief text and a short url to the location. By default the text sent to Twitter is exactly the same every time I check into a specific location.
I've noticed that after 4 days in a row of checking into my office and it posting to Twitter, that Twitter won't allow that tweet to be posted to my account anymore. It acts as if it is going to post, but is completely blocked and doesn't go through. Anything and everything else goes through fine, so I'm assuming it's some sort of automated spam feature recently implemented. If I copy and paste what would be posted and use the web, api, etc to post it, it won't go through, but if I change one character of the tweet it will.
Basically it seems to be a spam preventive measure on your end and I'd like to know if this is working as intended? If so can you give any details on how this is currently working? The tweets are about 24 hours apart, and aside from this everything else is working fine.
Should Gowalla use a different approach to this? For example, instead of posting the same short url every time for a location, should they be using a unique status update for the user at that location so all of their short urls are different?
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A comment on the problem "Gowalla Twitter cross posting spam issue" in Gowalla:
All of my check-ins are going out to twitter except the one location I visit every morning, which was working previously until today.
From my testing it has to be a twitter spam filter of some sort. In the gowalla iphone app, using the default post to twitter text, it always uses the same text and the same short url for that location. Twitter is blocking the exact text for that location from being posted. It doesn't matter where the message is coming from to my account, I've tried posting the exact message from twitter itself, the api, etc and it always blocks it. If I change one character of the message it will allow it. Also for example, if I use a bit.ly link instead of the gowalla short url to point to the locations page and the same text, twitter allows it.
My work around for this would be, instead of linking to the location of the check-in, link to a unique status update for the user at that location. This way every update to twitter regardless if it's the same location will have different text, because the short url will be different. Uses more resources to do it this way, but I think this would make more sense anyway.
If you would like more detailed info email me, I didn't want to post my accounts here. – Joe, on October 13, 2009 15:39 -
Joe reported a problem in Gowalla on October 13, 2009 14:23:
Gowalla Twitter cross posting spam issueMight be something to look into, but I've been checking in from my office for a few mornings and using the default message for it to post to twitter. I've noticed this morning that Twitter is blocking updates from this location as it's thinking it's spam. Even if I try to paste the message with your short url directly into twitter, etc it's doing it.
