Re: [twitter-dev] Twitter 140 character limit break
On 8/14/10 9:27 PM, Chris White wrote: It appears that the new twitter share link can be used to break the 140 character limit. Basically in Firefox you can do this: 1) In the URL bar enter http://twitter.com/share?url=Some over 140 character text 2) Hit enter 3) On the page resulting page click Tweet 4) View in web and notice the limit broken I'm not sure if clients can handle this, but it could turn into a pretty nasty annoyance for users of web if it continues. Might be a good idea to have it looked at. I'm assuming a simple check to verify it's a valid URL would suffice. Just tested it - yes, you are right. How clients handle it? Well, very simple, they simply display a t.co URL. Should be some more checks on the URL though, I agree. Tom
Re: [twitter-dev] Twitter 140 character limit break
On 8/14/10 9:29 PM, Tom van der Woerdt wrote: On 8/14/10 9:27 PM, Chris White wrote: It appears that the new twitter share link can be used to break the 140 character limit. Basically in Firefox you can do this: 1) In the URL bar enter http://twitter.com/share?url=Some over 140 character text 2) Hit enter 3) On the page resulting page click Tweet 4) View in web and notice the limit broken I'm not sure if clients can handle this, but it could turn into a pretty nasty annoyance for users of web if it continues. Might be a good idea to have it looked at. I'm assuming a simple check to verify it's a valid URL would suffice. Just tested it - yes, you are right. How clients handle it? Well, very simple, they simply display a t.co URL. Should be some more checks on the URL though, I agree. Tom One more note, You can't visit a page that has a long link on it. @barthoekstra and I (@tvdw) just tested this - I posted 5 paragraphs of the well-known lorem ipsum (don't worry, deleted after a few seconds) but his timeline started saying Something is technically wrong. I removed my tweet and it was fine again. He then posted an url as well but now he can't remove it anymore. I am assuming that all his ~1500 followers can't use the timeline anymore at the moment. Proof: http://twitter.com/barthoekstra Tom
Re: [twitter-dev] Twitter 140 character limit break
Yay! Robots! Genuine bug and not a scaling issue. Zac On Aug 14, 2010, at 12:43 PM, Tom van der Woerdt wrote: On 8/14/10 9:29 PM, Tom van der Woerdt wrote: On 8/14/10 9:27 PM, Chris White wrote: It appears that the new twitter share link can be used to break the 140 character limit. Basically in Firefox you can do this: 1) In the URL bar enter http://twitter.com/share?url=Some over 140 character text 2) Hit enter 3) On the page resulting page click Tweet 4) View in web and notice the limit broken I'm not sure if clients can handle this, but it could turn into a pretty nasty annoyance for users of web if it continues. Might be a good idea to have it looked at. I'm assuming a simple check to verify it's a valid URL would suffice. Just tested it - yes, you are right. How clients handle it? Well, very simple, they simply display a t.co URL. Should be some more checks on the URL though, I agree. Tom One more note, You can't visit a page that has a long link on it. @barthoekstra and I (@tvdw) just tested this - I posted 5 paragraphs of the well-known lorem ipsum (don't worry, deleted after a few seconds) but his timeline started saying Something is technically wrong. I removed my tweet and it was fine again. He then posted an url as well but now he can't remove it anymore. I am assuming that all his ~1500 followers can't use the timeline anymore at the moment. Proof: http://twitter.com/barthoekstra Tom
Re: [twitter-dev] Twitter 140 character limit break
I filed a bug with our webclient team. Thanks for finding this. -john On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Tom van der Woerdt i...@tvdw.eu wrote: On 8/14/10 9:29 PM, Tom van der Woerdt wrote: On 8/14/10 9:27 PM, Chris White wrote: It appears that the new twitter share link can be used to break the 140 character limit. Basically in Firefox you can do this: 1) In the URL bar enter http://twitter.com/share?url=Some over 140 character text 2) Hit enter 3) On the page resulting page click Tweet 4) View in web and notice the limit broken I'm not sure if clients can handle this, but it could turn into a pretty nasty annoyance for users of web if it continues. Might be a good idea to have it looked at. I'm assuming a simple check to verify it's a valid URL would suffice. Just tested it - yes, you are right. How clients handle it? Well, very simple, they simply display a t.coURL. Should be some more checks on the URL though, I agree. Tom One more note, You can't visit a page that has a long link on it. @barthoekstra and I (@tvdw) just tested this - I posted 5 paragraphs of the well-known lorem ipsum (don't worry, deleted after a few seconds) but his timeline started saying Something is technically wrong. I removed my tweet and it was fine again. He then posted an url as well but now he can't remove it anymore. I am assuming that all his ~1500 followers can't use the timeline anymore at the moment. Proof: http://twitter.com/barthoekstra Tom
