Change in response codes for statuses longer than 140 characters and duplicate statuses

[Mark McBride]

Per popular request, we recently changed the api to return an error code of 403 when users attempted to post a status with over 140 characters.  This currently works, except in the case that a long status can be reduced to under 140 characters by shortening URLs.  In this case we return a 403 but successfully create the status.

As part of the same fix, we will also be returning 403s when a duplicate status is posted.  This addresses another long standing request, where attempting to create a duplicate would return a 200 but fail to update.  This fix will only apply to the api.twitter.com endpoints.  You will not get a 403 posting a duplicate status using twitter.com endpoints.

This should only break applications that depend on 200 responses in the case of long statuses and duplicate posts.

  ---Mark

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