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Remove duplicate entries for Facebook users with Twitter sync
A good number of my Twitter followers have twitter sync to their Facebook account. What happens is that I get double-notified like the image below.
I'd love it if you could hack around this in some form -- maybe delete status messages that match text and are posted within a minute or two of each other.
I'd love it if you could hack around this in some form -- maybe delete status messages that match text and are posted within a minute or two of each other.
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Inappropriate?We're aware of the problem and we have it on our list. We will provide a fix as soon as we can. -
Inappropriate?+1 from me and +4 from others.
This would be a great feature. I actually started unfollowing a few of my contacts on Twitter because I get the stuff via Facebook anyway -
Inappropriate?Please god, yes. Thanks for suggesting this Kyle! -
Inappropriate?Good one Kyle! Just started using Facebook a week ago and I only noticed then that this "hickup" exists.
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Inappropriate?A wrinkle to this is a lot of services (eg Ping.fm) let you add a constant to the start of the FB status report (eg "said:" or ":" so you end up seeing:
Twitter
Ate too much.
FB:
Glark said: Ate too much.
So it's hard to make a de-duper really useful. I've yet to see anyone really solve it (not that it's a giant problem).1 Comment
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If these people are using Twitter/Facebook correctly (which, admittedly, nobody I know but myself and one other person does), they'd be forming their sentences in such a way as that they read continuously with the username: "Glark: ate too much." on Twitter, and "Glark ate too much." on Facebook. -
Inappropriate?Even if it's not a perfect solution, I think that this 100% needs done. It is a giant problem at least on my own friends list, where 90% of the twitter people I follow link their status to Facebook. Which means that I'm seeing tons of duplicates in my 'unread' feed.
The bulk of all the ones I see have the status message 100% the same, or with the addition of a '.' at the end. That would be easy enough to detect.
And detecting a ':' or a "said:" at the front, would be easy enough as well. Do those 3 subcases, and it's pretty simple to catch the majority of them. And very much needed.
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If you're going to for a detecting mechanism, screw it - just assume that any two messages that are temporally coincident are the same message, if one ends with the other (i.e. 'foo' =~ /bar/ || 'bar' =~ /foo/)
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Inappropriate?this needs to get fixed ASAP, 34 people have this problem and yet 3 months later still no update from EventBox?
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Stepan, I understand your frustration, please accept my apologies. We're aware of the issue and it will get fixed but I cannot provide a time frame. We have a lot more important tasks which need to be done first.
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Stepan, I'll remind you that that EventBox is still in beta. No one is forcing you to use EventBox.
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Inappropriate?Option to hide some Facebook friends could help with this?
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Inappropriate?SocialThing seemed to be pretty good at doing the de-duping. Unfortunately SocialThing was bought by AOL and they've discontinued development on it. -
Inappropriate?I thought that maybe using FaceBook's "Hide from News Feed" feature might work, but it looks like EvenBox isn't using that feed to pull into the app. :(
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The Facebook API does not provide the users you have hidden, so we cannot hide their statuses.
