[twitter-dev] Re: t.co Rollout
Please Twitter can you give us an update on how character counts will work Personally the only way I see it making sense is if it's still 140 for us and you change it after. Users will not understand when a character count wildly jumps when typing and will assume the app is broken. Also you've decided to change the users tweet and so surely the character count should reflect the users tweet itself? On Sep 2, 5:41 am, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky zn...@borasky- research.net wrote: My recollection is that the character count question was discussed on this list, but I don't remember the number. -- M. Edward (Ed) Boraskyhttp://borasky-research.nethttp://twitter.com/znmeb A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. - Paul Erdos Quoting John Meyer john.l.me...@gmail.com: On 9/1/2010 9:34 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: I just got an email from Twitter about oAuth and t.co. Given that I have about five accounts, I assume I will get more copies. ;-) Anyhow, in the section on t.co, there was this line: You will start seeing these links on certain accounts that have opted-in to the service And in a related question, exactly how is this going to affect character count? Will it be based on the bit.ly URL, or the t.co URL? -- Twitter developer documentation and resources:http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter:http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker:http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk?hl=en -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk?hl=en
[twitter-dev] Re: t.co Rollout
I don't know the answer to the first few items, but I'm guessing that the URLs will be unwrapped to whatever was originally submitted to Twitter (i.e. whatever's currently shown when using the REST API timelines with ?include_entities=true in the parameters) -N -- @nikf On Sep 2, 4:34 am, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky zn...@borasky- research.net wrote: I just got an email from Twitter about oAuth and t.co. Given that I have about five accounts, I assume I will get more copies. ;-) Anyhow, in the section on t.co, there was this line: You will start seeing these links on certain accounts that have opted-in to the service How does an account opt-in to t.co? Will there be a setting in the web app, similar to opting-in to locations? Will there be an API call, or will Twitter simply wrap all the links posted by an account that has opted in? If I post a bit.ly link and Twitter wraps it via t.co, will the unwrapped display unwrap just the t.co piece, or will it go all the way down to the raw URL? -- M. Edward (Ed) Boraskyhttp://borasky-research.nethttp://twitter.com/znmeb A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. - Paul Erdos -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk?hl=en
[twitter-dev] Re: t.co Rollout
Different question on the same email that states that Twitter will start tracking every t.co click, whether on twitter.com or a Twitter app. Does anyone know if Twitter will update their API to allow us to get the Twitter Update ID that referred a particular click? Thanks, Boaz On Sep 1, 8:34 pm, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky zn...@borasky- research.net wrote: I just got an email from Twitter about oAuth andt.co. Given that I have about five accounts, I assume I will get more copies. ;-) Anyhow, in the section ont.co, there was this line: You will start seeing these links on certain accounts that have opted-in to the service How does an account opt-in tot.co? Will there be a setting in the web app, similar to opting-in to locations? Will there be an API call, or will Twitter simply wrap all the links posted by an account that has opted in? If I post a bit.ly link and Twitter wraps it viat.co, will the unwrapped display unwrap just thet.copiece, or will it go all the way down to the raw URL? -- M. Edward (Ed) Boraskyhttp://borasky-research.nethttp://twitter.com/znmeb A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. - Paul Erdos -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk?hl=en
[twitter-dev] Re: t.co Rollout
Yeah my point is that clients when posting shouldn't have to be aware of this wrapping. As far as posting is concerned, what the client says is 140 characters is 140 characters. If Twitter decides to change the number of characters after posting, then that's their issue, it shouldn't be the client's issue. I really only need to give one reason for this, user's are stupid. If you have your character counter at 50 chars left and then all of a sudden it changes but your character display shows something else, they won't understand and will simply complain the app is broken. I believe all t.co links are 20 characters. -jonathan -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk?hl=en
[twitter-dev] Re: t.co Rollout
Are there any plans to include include_entities to the search api as we can't parse these unless it is included, and also means clients can't show proper links when using the search api -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk?hl=en
