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 Abraham Williams
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 Abraham - Abraham Williams | Hacker Advocate | abrah.am @abraham | github.com/abraham | blog.abrah.am This email is:

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 what I thought. Thanks for the confir

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 M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 10:21:32 -0800, "David E. Wheeler" wrote: > 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.

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 Emil Tullstedt
As for bit.ly, there is an API for bit.ly which aids you in using URL-shortening until t.co is finished.. -- Emil "sakjur" Tullstedt ~~ On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Tom van der Woerdt wrote: > Hello David, > > Currently the API does not shorten the links for you yet. In the future

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

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

2010-12-18 Thread Tom van der Woerdt
Hello David, 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. Tom On 12/18/10 1:19 AM, David E. Wheeler wrote: Howdy, I'm writing an iPad app that has a

[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