Hey Adam,
The status update you are sending is part of the SMS command set.
http://support.twitter.com/articles/14020-about-twitter-sms-commands
It corresponds to the FAV command and is the alias for it. It used to be
documented but for some reason isn't there at the moment. I've asked the
support team to make sure it is added.
Best,
@themattharris
Developer Advocate, Twitter
http://twitter.com/themattharris
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 4:09 PM, Adam Green <140...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
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