[twitter-dev] New tweet button - is t.co mandatory?

2010-08-12 Thread pthomsen
I am implementing the tweet button for our site (http://
shop.moxsie.com), and since we use bitly pro, I'd like the short urls
to use my own short domain (http://moxs.ie).

It seems, though that I'm not able to get around the t.co shortener.
If I put my shortened URL in the 'url' field, it gets shortened again
by t.co. Is that because t.co doesn't 'know' about moxs.ie? Or is
there simply no way to get around getting shortened by t.co?

If I just put my shortened URL in the text of the tweet, I get an
error page saying 'Something is technically wrong'. Not sure if that's
because I don't have a url parameter, or for some other reason

Has anyone been able to work around this?

Thanks,
Per


Re: [twitter-dev] New tweet button - is t.co mandatory?

2010-08-12 Thread Tom van der Woerdt
On 8/12/10 10:21 PM, pthomsen wrote:
 I am implementing the tweet button for our site (http://
 shop.moxsie.com), and since we use bitly pro, I'd like the short urls
 to use my own short domain (http://moxs.ie).
 
 It seems, though that I'm not able to get around the t.co shortener.
 If I put my shortened URL in the 'url' field, it gets shortened again
 by t.co. Is that because t.co doesn't 'know' about moxs.ie? Or is
 there simply no way to get around getting shortened by t.co?
 
 If I just put my shortened URL in the text of the tweet, I get an
 error page saying 'Something is technically wrong'. Not sure if that's
 because I don't have a url parameter, or for some other reason
 
 Has anyone been able to work around this?
 
 Thanks,
 Per

No, yes.

Abraham posted this sample code :
a href=http://twitter.com/share; class=twitter-share-button
data-url=http://arst.ch/xyz; data-count=vertical
data-via=abrahamTweet/a
(I think that this will post a tweet with Tweet: http://t.co/url (via
@abraham), although unsure)

No: this does post a t.co URL. Yes: it will redirect to your custom URL,
which will redirect the user to the final URL.

This allows you to track your clicks, but it will not allow you to post
custom URLs. You will have to keep using your previous Tweet Popup for that.

Tom