There are some very strange behaviors when using the statuses/update API call to send a tweet with a single asterisk.
1. If you send a tweet with just a single asterisk: * The API returns 200 and the response string contains the previous good tweet in the timeline. No new tweet with an asterisk appears in the timeline. Repeating this API call results in the same behavior. 2. If you send a statuses/update with a single asterisk followed by a single word: * test The first time you do this, the API returns 200 and the response string contains the previous good tweet in the timeline. No new tweet with the string sent to the API appears in the timeline. If you repeat the same API call, the API returns 500 and the response string has an HTML page that something strange happened: <h2>Something is technically wrong.</h2> <p>Thanks for noticing we're going to fix it up and have things back to normal soon.</p> No other use of the asterisk has a problem that I can find. These bad tweet strings cause similar problems on Twitter.com. -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
