Hello David,
Currently the API does not shorten the links for you yet. In the future
Twitter may implement this, but currently you will have to shorten the
links yourself, via (for example) bit.ly.
Tom
On 12/18/10 1:19 AM, David E. Wheeler wrote:
Howdy,
I'm writing an iPad app that has a "Share via Twitter" feature. I'm trying to understand
how to count characters, including URLs before I post to the API. I thought these might be FAQs,
but "t.co" does not show up in the FAQ and has only two hits via Google's search of this
list, so I apologize if these are in fact FAQs.
So I tried to post a new status message that was longer than 140 characters,
but I counted the URL as only 19 characters, per [this message][] from Raffi.
Unfortunately, the API rejected the message as too long. So my questions are:
* Should I be counting URLs as only 19 characters?
* If so, will the Twitter API be adjusted to count URLs as only 19 characters,
and not reject messages that are longer because the URLs are longer?
* And if that's the plan, when is it likely to happen?
* And should I also count URLs that are less than 19 characters as 19
characters, on the assumption that they will *always* be wrapped?
Ah, I just did a search for "link wrap" and say [this thread][] from September.
Doesn't look like there was an official answer from Twitter -- did I miss it? If not,
does anyone have any idea when there might be more information on this stuff and how it
will affect the API?
Thanks,
David
[this message]:
http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/msg/9bdd19b025fe0cba?
[this thread]:
http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/dacc3bdc5b1e1d67
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