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
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
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
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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
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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
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