# IFTTT counts a datapoint as "new" only once

**URL:** <https://forum.beeminder.com/t/ifttt-counts-a-datapoint-as-new-only-once/2063>\
**Category:** Bugabee\
**Created:** [March 29, 2016, 1:58pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/ifttt-counts-a-datapoint-as-new-only-once/2063 "2016-03-29T13:58:25Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![mary](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/mary/32/317_2.png) [@mary](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/mary)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2016, 1:58pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/ifttt-counts-a-datapoint-as-new-only-once/2063/1 "2016-03-29T13:58:25Z")

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I think it might be the case that IFTTT recipes are counting a datapoint as “new” only once, no matter how many recipes use the same trigger.

So, for example, if you have a “send an email to so-and-so whenever a new datapoint gets added to goal X” recipe, and also a “add a datapoint to goal Y whenever a datapoint gets added to goal X” recipe, only one of them will fire for each new datapoint (whichever happens to check first).

This appears only to be a problem with Beeminder recipes, though, as I have other recipes that use the same triggering event twice.

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**Author:** ![drtall](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/drtall/32/1341_2.png) [@drtall](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/drtall)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2016, 4:08pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/ifttt-counts-a-datapoint-as-new-only-once/2063/2 "2016-03-29T16:08:45Z")

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I agree that what you describe is a bug. I’ve never seen an IFTTT channel that didn’t let you build multiple recipes using the same trigger.

A while back I learned the hard way that you can’t be signed into the same Beeminder account on two different IFTTT accounts (which works with every other IFTTT channel I’ve used). I wonder if this could be related somehow?

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**Author:** ![peppertoni](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/peppertoni/32/913_2.png) [@peppertoni](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/peppertoni)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2016, 8:42am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/ifttt-counts-a-datapoint-as-new-only-once/2063/3 "2016-04-10T08:42:31Z")

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Yup, I’m having this problem too. I mentioned it first back [here](http://forum.beeminder.com/t/ifttt-channel-is-live/765/28) where Bethany fixed something related to the issue. Since then, it’s reoccurred and the email thread I started with support back in January seems to have been dropped.