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A philosophical Twitter question

In a similar vein to my last useless philosophical question, consider this scenario! Imagine you’ve configured your weblog software to republish all your Tweets into daily weblog posts. Then imagine you’ve set up TwitterFeed to watch your weblog and update your Twitter profile with each new weblog post.

Would you be publishing the same information to Twitter and your weblog every day for eternity?

3 Comments

  1. Roel247
    Posted 2008.04.15 at 15.42 | Permalink

    I would like to add the following to this question and what if you then made the same post at the same time in both twitter and your blog.

  2. Mat
    Posted 2008.04.15 at 17.12 | Permalink

    I’d say that the most flexible solution would be for Twitter’s settings to allow a user to set the number of times to allow an identical Tweet within a specified time frame. Twitter’s own message length limit would defeat the “copy of” effect if some messages varied at the start, but if your Tweet had a timestamp or other unique identifier as part of the message, it would loop.

  3. Posted 2008.04.16 at 11.52 | Permalink

    I believe you would! And I believe that would be cool cuz then you could stop blogging and twittering and no one would know! Cooooool!

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