Sorry, but that's the intended behavior. It makes it difficult for people to inject HTML or scripts into tweets.
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 07:43, twonvo.com <[email protected]> wrote: > > i have a similar problem... when submitting from my tool the user > cannot use &! > > any ideas? - tried converting to & with no luck > > On Jan 16, 2:52 pm, nattu <[email protected]> wrote: >> If the status message for a user contains the characters '<' or '>', >> while >> fetching through the API, the returned status contains the double html >> encoded form of < and >, i.e., '&<' and '&>'. This is >> causing >> issues when used in our application. >> >> http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml >> We are requesting the status update for which the new status is >> returned. > -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x
