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
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 confirmation.
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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Twitter developer documentation and
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 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 confirmation
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
