Hey Ossi58,
Thanks for the feedback. This sounds more like a combination of problems, rather an issue with leenk.me. I’d have to see your server setup to be sure.
It sounds like every hour you pull in a bunch of items from RSS feeds, which become individual posts on your website. leenk.me would then send every new post to Twitter/etc. Which undoubtedly will cause extra load on your server. However, the plugin itself does very little work.
I am really surprised that you found multiple of the same items posted on Twitter. Mainly because you’re not suppose to be able to post a duplicate tweet within 24 hours of the original. They started blocking duplicate posts back in 2009 (http://techcrunch.com/2009/10/14/cleaning-up-the-stream-twitter-kills-duplicate-tweets/).
I wish I could have seen your Twitter stream when this happened.
Sorry the plugin didn’t work out for your needs and thanks again for the feedback.
Lew
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ossi58
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Hi Lew,
Yes, Twitter will block duplicate posts but the shortened url was different each time so it was getting through.
You can see the stream on http://twitter.com/todaysphonenews and go back to Sept 28 at 06:10:42 I have left a few duplicates there (I deleted over a hundred)
As for the server, It is a virtual server hosting 4 other sites and I dod not have the time to look in detail at what was actually going on, but as I said, removing this plugin restored sanity to the system 🙂
Anyway, I like the idea of your plugin, I hope no one else has my experience.
Ossi
Hi Ossi,
It looks like something may have gone wrong with your RSS puller. I do see where there were a bunch of duplicate posts to twitter because of the different TinyURL, each one is to also to a different post on your site (which is why the TinyURL changed).
For instance, these three tweets:
Get the Samsung Fascinate for a penny!: http://tinyurl.com/2uw247k 1:10 AM Sep 28th via leenk.me
Get the Samsung Fascinate for a penny!: http://tinyurl.com/3237zn9 1:10 AM Sep 28th via leenk.me
Get the Samsung Fascinate for a penny!: http://tinyurl.com/3839fp2 1:10 AM Sep 28th via leenk.me
Go to these three posts (respectively):
http://www.todaysphonenews.com/2010/09/28/get-the-samsung-fascinate-for-a-penny-6/
http://www.todaysphonenews.com/2010/09/28/get-the-samsung-fascinate-for-a-penny-5/
http://www.todaysphonenews.com/2010/09/28/get-the-samsung-fascinate-for-a-penny-3/
Which tells me that the post “Get The Samsung Fascinate for a Penny” attempted to be published several times on your site. Do you have a lot of invalid posts on your blog (or posted that are labeled as “missed schedule”? Leenk.me definitely doesn’t create new content, it is only triggered when a new post is published.
What are you using to pull in RSS content? I’d like to test this out to see if I can replicate the issue.
Thanks again and sorry you had such a bad experience.
Lew
