[twitter-dev] Re: Links stripped from tweets

2010-06-17 Thread Rudiger
Most users wouldn't put the anchor tags in a link. And they probably shouldn't as twitter does the equivalent of a php htmlspecialchars on posts. But if you look at your home page twitter renders urls as links even if you just pasted a url into a post. Is it really necessary to parse posts to

[twitter-dev] Re: Links stripped from tweets

2010-06-16 Thread Rudiger
I should probably clarify that the urls aren't stripped, just the anchor tags surrounding them. Anyone else have this problem? On Jun 16, 10:24 am, Rudiger bpa...@rocketmail.com wrote: Hi there,               I'm fetching the latest tweet from a list of users through /users/lookup in the REST

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Links stripped from tweets

2010-06-16 Thread Bernd Stramm
On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 23:26:41 -0700 (PDT) Rudiger bpa...@rocketmail.com wrote: I should probably clarify that the urls aren't stripped, just the anchor tags surrounding them. Anyone else have this problem? Are you sure the anchor tags were there in the first place? Many posts simply have text