[twitter-dev] hyphens at the end of shortned urls

[roliver]

I work for AWeber Communications in Huntingdon Valley PA.  We provide
email marketing solutions for small to medium sized businesses and
have 100,000+ active customers.  We utilize the Twitter API to allow a
customer to automatically post status updates to their twitter account
when they send out a mailing. The urls in the status updates sometimes
end with a hyphen.  Up until recently, these have been auto-linked
correctly by twitter.  Recently this changed, and the hyphens at the
end of the link are not included in the links I post to the API.  For
example, http://aweber.com/b/os7- would have linked correctly before,
but now links to http://aweber.com/b/os7 instead.  Is this a bug or a
permanent change at Twitter?

Is there a way to explicitly define the links that get picked up,
display_url maybe?  I see that complete urls and start / end points
are included in the entities: urls section of a tweet, but it is not
clear if I am able to _submit_ the entities section for my own
posts.

Any help is appreciated.

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[twitter-dev] Re: hyphens at the end of shortned urls

[roliver]

Taylor,

Thanks for checking on this.   I hate asking, but can you give me a
rough ETA on when this might be corrected and if it will apply to
already posted updates?   Reason I ask is because if it is going to
take weeks I'll need to put in a temporary fix on the AWeber side.

Thanks again
Rodney

On Mar 21, 11:26 am, Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com
wrote:
 Hi there,

 We'll look into this issue; I'm unsure if the non-linkifying of URLs ending
 with a dash was intentional or not, but likely was not.
 To answer your latter question, tweet entities cannot be written
 to/suggested at time of tweet creation unfortunately.

 Thanks,
 Taylor

 @episod http://twitter.com/episod - Taylor Singletary - Twitter Developer
 Advocate

 On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 8:08 AM, roliver roliv...@gmail.com wrote:
  I work for AWeber Communications in Huntingdon Valley PA.  We provide
  email marketing solutions for small to medium sized businesses and
  have 100,000+ active customers.  We utilize the Twitter API to allow a
  customer to automatically post status updates to their twitter account
  when they send out a mailing. The urls in the status updates sometimes
  end with a hyphen.  Up until recently, these have been auto-linked
  correctly by twitter.  Recently this changed, and the hyphens at the
  end of the link are not included in the links I post to the API.  For
  example,http://aweber.com/b/os7-would have linked correctly before,
  but now links tohttp://aweber.com/b/os7instead.  Is this a bug or a
  permanent change at Twitter?

  Is there a way to explicitly define the links that get picked up,
  display_url maybe?  I see that complete urls and start / end points
  are included in the entities: urls section of a tweet, but it is not
  clear if I am able to _submit_ the entities section for my own
  posts.

  Any help is appreciated.

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 http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list
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 http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk

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