Couldn't reply to a thread

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Strange thing just happened to me, I couldn’t reply to a thread (using quick reply box):

the board always told me that I still need to wait 29 of the 30 seconds until I can post again as well as that the post I intended to submit is a duplicate of another one I posted (never knew that you guys have this in place). Also, the thread got subscribed just as usual when I make a post but my reply never showed up. This happened twice - had to wait 5 minutes for a second try due to the duplicate things still coming back.

I got around this by replying just “test” and then editing and copying the exact same text in there replacing “test”.

Below is my post, without the OT.

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When I post it seems my feed does not appear on their account.

Why should it? people only see the messages the account holder themselves posts on their account page.

What gives, am I missing something or is Twitter a waste of time???

Sounds like you don’t have a proper Twitter strategy in place. Though you seem to have started in the right direction, i.e. targeted followers.

What you now need is a content strategy and a means of monitoring your Twitter activities, i.e. by employing URL shorteners that provide you with statistics as well as adapting your site and website analytics package to monitor incoming traffic from Twitter - some do it by adding something like ?r=twitter or #r=twitter (and [URL=“http://www.e-nor.com/blog/index.php/web-analytics/tracking-traffic-from-press-releases-in-google-analytics/”]another link for that).

There’s a little bit more to a Twitter strategy then this of course, but I don’t have the time right now to go into more depth.

One more, don’t forget to utilise retweet buttons on your own site.[/ot]

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If I’m correct, I didn’t approve the posts, so I’m guessing, that you did reply, but the posts didn’t display right away because they went into moderation queue.

The forum “filters” posts against certain words, and if they trigger the filter, the posts go into moderation queue so that a moderator can check them out to see if they’re really a problem post or a false positive.

If your case, I’m guessing the word “referral” or “r=” in the link triggered it.

Referral links are not allowed in the SitePoint forums. But once a moderator saw the link (humans are still a bit smarter than apps - I hope!) they approved the posts.

I just deleted the 2 duplicates.

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Good to know. will think of something else to use next time, like source, and see what happens. Though as it seems the filter can be circumvented by just editing the post.

As I said, there was no indication that something like this happened. I only got the message that I have to wait another 29 seconds until I can post again, and that was displayed on the “newreply” form, and I’m certain I didn’t accidentally hit the submit button twice and also got exactly the same thing the second time I tried it.

Thanks.