Re: [twitter-dev] t.co Posting Questions

2011-01-12 Thread David E. Wheeler
On Jan 12, 2011, at 11:41 AM, Abraham Williams wrote: > I would not recommend using it yet but Twitter for Mac is using the endpoint > /urls/shorten.json?url=http://example.com > > http://t.co/6wD3idD Ah, that's pretty nice. Pity the API doesn't do it magically for you, but this will be a good

Re: [twitter-dev] t.co Posting Questions

2011-01-12 Thread David E . Wheeler
On Dec 18, 2010, at 5:17 PM, David E. Wheeler wrote: >> 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. > > That's w

Re: [twitter-dev] t.co Posting Questions

2010-12-20 Thread David E. Wheeler
On Dec 20, 2010, at 12:16 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: >> Yeah, but it's rate-limited. I'm using http://s.coop/ for now. Dead > simple. >> >> Best, >> >> David > > *All* services are rate-limited and *none* are free. ;-) True. David -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: htt

Re: [twitter-dev] t.co Posting Questions

2010-12-20 Thread David E. Wheeler
On Dec 20, 2010, at 4:16 AM, Emil Tullstedt wrote: > As for bit.ly, there is an API for bit.ly which aids you in using > URL-shortening until t.co is finished.. Yeah, but it's rate-limited. I'm using http://s.coop/ for now. Dead simple. Best, David -- Twitter developer documentation and reso

Re: [twitter-dev] t.co Posting Questions

2010-12-20 Thread David E. Wheeler
On Dec 18, 2010, at 5:01 AM, Tom van der Woerdt wrote: > 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. That's what I thought. Thanks for the confirmatio

[twitter-dev] t.co Posting Questions

2010-12-17 Thread David E. Wheeler
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 ap