diff --git a/hoot.go b/hoot.go
index 6624f68..8d46dfe 100644
--- a/hoot.go
+++ b/hoot.go
@@ -33,81 +33,88 @@ var tweetsel = cascadia.MustCompile("p.tweet-text")
 var linksel = cascadia.MustCompile(".time a.tweet-timestamp")
 var authorregex = regexp.MustCompile("twitter.com/([^/]+)")
 
-func hootfetcher(hoot string) string {
-	url := hoot[5:]
-	if url[0] == ' ' {
-		url = url[1:]
-	}
-	url = strings.Replace(url, "mobile.twitter.com", "twitter.com", -1)
-	log.Printf("hooterizing %s", url)
-	req, err := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)
-	if err != nil {
-		log.Printf("error: %s", err)
-		return hoot
-	}
-	req.Header.Set("User-Agent", "OpenBSD ftp")
-	req.Header.Set("Accept", "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8")
-	req.Header.Set("Accept-Language", "en-US,en;q=0.9")
-	resp, err := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
-	if err != nil {
-		log.Printf("error: %s", err)
-		return hoot
-	}
-	defer resp.Body.Close()
-	if resp.StatusCode != 200 {
-		log.Printf("error getting %s: %d", url, resp.StatusCode)
-		return hoot
-	}
-	ld, _ := os.Create("lasthoot.html")
-	r := io.TeeReader(resp.Body, ld)
-	return hootfixer(r, url)
-}
-
-func hootfixer(r io.Reader, url string) string {
-	root, err := html.Parse(r)
-	if err != nil {
-		log.Printf("error parsing hoot: %s", err)
-		return url
-	}
-	divs := tweetsel.MatchAll(root)
-
-	wantmatch := authorregex.FindStringSubmatch(url)
-	if len(wantmatch) < 2 {
-		log.Printf("no wanted author?")
-	}
-	wanted := wantmatch[1]
-	var buf strings.Builder
-
-	var htf htfilter.Filter
-	fmt.Fprintf(&buf, "%s\n", url)
-	for _, div := range divs {
-		twp := div.Parent.Parent.Parent
-		alink := linksel.MatchFirst(twp)
-		if alink == nil {
-			log.Printf("missing link")
-			continue
-		}
-		link := "https://twitter.com" + htfilter.GetAttr(alink, "href")
-		authormatch := authorregex.FindStringSubmatch(link)
-		if len(authormatch) < 2 {
-			log.Printf("no author?")
-			continue
-		}
-		author := authormatch[1]
-		if author != wanted {
-			continue
-		}
-		text := htf.TextOnly(div)
-		text = strings.Replace(text, "\n", " ", -1)
-		text = strings.Replace(text, "pic.twitter.com", "https://pic.twitter.com", -1)
-
-		fmt.Fprintf(&buf, "> @%s: %s\n", author, text)
-	}
-	return buf.String()
-}
-
 var re_hoots = regexp.MustCompile(`hoot: ?https://\S+`)
 
 func hooterize(noise string) string {
+	seen := make(map[string]bool)
+
+	hootfixer := func(r io.Reader, url string) string {
+		root, err := html.Parse(r)
+		if err != nil {
+			log.Printf("error parsing hoot: %s", err)
+			return url
+		}
+		divs := tweetsel.MatchAll(root)
+
+		wantmatch := authorregex.FindStringSubmatch(url)
+		if len(wantmatch) < 2 {
+			log.Printf("no wanted author?")
+		}
+		wanted := wantmatch[1]
+		var buf strings.Builder
+
+		var htf htfilter.Filter
+		fmt.Fprintf(&buf, "%s\n", url)
+		for _, div := range divs {
+			twp := div.Parent.Parent.Parent
+			alink := linksel.MatchFirst(twp)
+			if alink == nil {
+				log.Printf("missing link")
+				continue
+			}
+			link := "https://twitter.com" + htfilter.GetAttr(alink, "href")
+			authormatch := authorregex.FindStringSubmatch(link)
+			if len(authormatch) < 2 {
+				log.Printf("no author?")
+				continue
+			}
+			author := authormatch[1]
+			if author != wanted {
+				continue
+			}
+			text := htf.TextOnly(div)
+			text = strings.Replace(text, "\n", " ", -1)
+			text = strings.Replace(text, "pic.twitter.com", "https://pic.twitter.com", -1)
+
+			if seen[text] {
+				continue
+			}
+
+			fmt.Fprintf(&buf, "> @%s: %s\n", author, text)
+			seen[text] = true
+		}
+		return buf.String()
+	}
+
+	hootfetcher := func(hoot string) string {
+		url := hoot[5:]
+		if url[0] == ' ' {
+			url = url[1:]
+		}
+		url = strings.Replace(url, "mobile.twitter.com", "twitter.com", -1)
+		log.Printf("hooterizing %s", url)
+		req, err := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)
+		if err != nil {
+			log.Printf("error: %s", err)
+			return hoot
+		}
+		req.Header.Set("User-Agent", "OpenBSD ftp")
+		req.Header.Set("Accept", "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8")
+		req.Header.Set("Accept-Language", "en-US,en;q=0.9")
+		resp, err := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
+		if err != nil {
+			log.Printf("error: %s", err)
+			return hoot
+		}
+		defer resp.Body.Close()
+		if resp.StatusCode != 200 {
+			log.Printf("error getting %s: %d", url, resp.StatusCode)
+			return hoot
+		}
+		ld, _ := os.Create("lasthoot.html")
+		r := io.TeeReader(resp.Body, ld)
+		return hootfixer(r, url)
+	}
+
 	return re_hoots.ReplaceAllStringFunc(noise, hootfetcher)
 }