Re: Tweet This: I Don't Care

[Robert Slade <rmslade () shaw ca>]

From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Thursday, March 19, 2009 7:39 am

> Oh. So you enter a URL and it's automagically converted - unless 
> it needs
> conversion, in which case you have to do the heavy lifting 
> yourself first.


Just confirmed this.  And, even though you can enter > 140 chars into the Web form input field, it refuses to give you 
*any* allowance for the reduction in URL size that might result.  I "tweeted" (urgh) that URL about the upcoming system 
management "ultimate rootkit" "proof of concept."  the URL was 68 chars, and, even though you can pretty much guarantee 
that the TinyURL will be 28 char or less, it refused to take even 141 char in the field.  (So, yes, Nick, you are 
correct: the only way to enter a URL that is > 140 char is to reduce it first.)

(This test is valid for the Twitter.com Web entry field only.  Various other clients may behave differently.  Not valid 
where prohibited by law.  No added salt.  Slightly longer west of the Rockies, where they tend to drawl out the .cooom.)

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