Re: [twitter-dev] Re: [twitter-api-announce] link wrapping on the API

2010-06-09 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
Quoting DeWitt Clinton dclin...@gmail.com: Awesome, thanks for the quick response! Those are the right answers, too. : ) Though there's an inconsistency with returning 301's and also requiring every click to go through the t.co link (as required by the ToS). A 301 means that the redirect is

[twitter-dev] Re: [twitter-api-announce] link wrapping on the API

2010-06-08 Thread DeWitt Clinton
Hi Raffi, Interesting... A couple of quick questions: *1)* Will the redirect from t.co - domain.com be a 301 Moved Permanently or a 302 Found response? *2)* Will the t.co URL redirect point to the URL in the original tweet, or will it point to the ultimate resolved URL? I.e., if I post Check

[twitter-dev] Re: [twitter-api-announce] link wrapping on the API

2010-06-08 Thread John Barratt
Hi Raffi, On 9/06/10 8:57 AM, Raffi Krikorian wrote: url : http://t.co/s9gfk2d4;, display_url : http://dev.twitter.com;, indices : [23, 43] Any chance of getting the title of the resolved URL added in here too if available? Then we could display a link like : a title=Twitter Dev

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: [twitter-api-announce] link wrapping on the API

2010-06-08 Thread Raffi Krikorian
*1)* Will the redirect from t.co - domain.com be a 301 Moved Permanently or a 302 Found response? 301! *2)* Will the t.co URL redirect point to the URL in the original tweet, or will it point to the ultimate resolved URL? I.e., if I post Check out my site at http://bit.ly/abcd; where

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: [twitter-api-announce] link wrapping on the API

2010-06-08 Thread Raffi Krikorian
that would be an awesome service! On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 4:50 PM, John Barratt djo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Raffi, On 9/06/10 8:57 AM, Raffi Krikorian wrote: url : http://t.co/s9gfk2d4;, display_url : http://dev.twitter.com;, indices : [23, 43] Any chance of getting the title of the

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: [twitter-api-announce] link wrapping on the API

2010-06-08 Thread DeWitt Clinton
Awesome, thanks for the quick response! Those are the right answers, too. : ) Though there's an inconsistency with returning 301's and also requiring every click to go through the t.co link (as required by the ToS). A 301 means that the redirect is cacheable by any intermediary (because it is

[twitter-dev] Re: [twitter-api-announce] link wrapping on the API

2010-06-08 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Raffi: Never mind. I just saw the Twitter blog post. The motivation for this is to get metrics for Promoted Tweets and Resonance. Hence, the answer is: Suck it up. DeWitt: Yikes, discarding all shortens between t.co and the final link will seriously mess with the click stats of a few million

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: [twitter-api-announce] link wrapping on the API

2010-06-08 Thread John Barratt
Hi Raffi, On 9/06/10 9:57 AM, Raffi Krikorian wrote: that would be an awesome service! Currently we use one our own services (http://metauri.com/) to do this for http://trendsmap.com/. In addition to the title, it also gives the content type, which can be useful in determining how, or if to