NSTimer calls the selector method twice on the same thread?

Actually its not calling the selector twice, it is calling selector continously because while initializing timer you have written repeats:YES;. But in your selector there is a conditional block which is true only for a 1 sec and your timer is firing selector for every half second. So its printing twice.

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