I have noticed that my status update have contained duplicate links when sending them from iChat. It appears the problem is the way iChat creates the XML and/or the parser of the Ping.fm bot. An example of this can be seen on my twitter about credit card minimum purchase amounts.
If you sniff the jabber traffic you will find something similar the following:
<message to="pingdotfm@gmail.com" type="chat" id="iChat_...">
<body>
help http://www.google.com [http://www.google.com]
</body>
<html xmlns=”http://jabber.org/protocol/xhtml-im”>
<body xmlns=”…”>
<span style=”font-size:12px; font-family:Helvetica; “>
help <a href=”http://www.google.com”>http://www.google.com</a>
</span>
</body>
</html>
<x xmlns=”jabber:x:event”><composing/></x>
<active xmlns=”http://jabber.org/protocol/chatstates”/>
</message>
I did report the issue “ping.fm duplicating links“. But sadly it doesn’t appear that they are going (or able) to do anything about the issue.
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