I was looking at the source of a Twitter plugin to Windows Live Writer and found this gem of a comment:
TwitterApi.UpdateStatus(Username, Password, status); // Updating Twitter often happens so quickly that // it doesn't feel like enough time has passed for // it to have worked. So sleep for 250 millis to // make the user feel like something happened. Thread.Sleep(250);
Fantastic!
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