Don't have a rough ETA unfortunately; if it's important to you that your
links are clickable by default on Twitter.com, then you may want to
temporarily adjust your URL's format.

@episod <http://twitter.com/episod> - Taylor Singletary - Twitter Developer
Advocate


On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 10:39 AM, roliver <roliv...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Taylor,
>
> Thanks for checking on this.   I hate asking, but can you give me a
> rough ETA on when this might be corrected and if it will apply to
> already posted updates?   Reason I ask is because if it is going to
> take weeks I'll need to put in a temporary fix on the AWeber side.
>
> Thanks again
> Rodney
>
> On Mar 21, 11:26 am, Taylor Singletary <taylorsinglet...@twitter.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > We'll look into this issue; I'm unsure if the non-linkifying of URLs
> ending
> > with a dash was intentional or not, but likely was not.
> > To answer your latter question, tweet entities cannot be written
> > to/suggested at time of tweet creation unfortunately.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Taylor
> >
> > @episod <http://twitter.com/episod> - Taylor Singletary - Twitter
> Developer
> > Advocate
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 8:08 AM, roliver <roliv...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I work for AWeber Communications in Huntingdon Valley PA.  We provide
> > > email marketing solutions for small to medium sized businesses and
> > > have 100,000+ active customers.  We utilize the Twitter API to allow a
> > > customer to automatically post status updates to their twitter account
> > > when they send out a mailing. The urls in the status updates sometimes
> > > end with a hyphen.  Up until recently, these have been auto-linked
> > > correctly by twitter.  Recently this changed, and the hyphens at the
> > > end of the link are not included in the links I post to the API.  For
> > > example,http://aweber.com/b/os7-would have linked correctly before,
> > > but now links tohttp://aweber.com/b/os7instead.  Is this a bug or a
> > > permanent change at Twitter?
> >
> > > Is there a way to explicitly define the links that get picked up,
> > > display_url maybe?  I see that complete urls and start / end points
> > > are included in the entities: urls section of a tweet, but it is not
> > > clear if I am able to _submit_ the entities section for my own
> > > posts.
> >
> > > Any help is appreciated.
> >
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