Issue 413 [1] explains that this is a general site issue but from developers you need to know where we are going. The http://twitter.com/timeline/homeURL will be the address moving forward, so please develop against that.
Both of the errors you mentioned, pre-filled update box and the help.twitter.com link URL, are being addressed. 1. http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=413 Thanks, Doug Williams Twitter API Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Rodney <rodn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > With the new layout with the #sidey search bar the http://twitter.com/home > page forwards to http://twitter.com/timeline/home > > This breaks those links that are pre-filling the tweet by linking to / > home > > So before this would work: > > http://twitter.com/home?status=hello+world > > But on the new @home page with the search in the sidebar, it doesn't > work (doesn't prefill the input box). It has to be: > > http://twitter.com/timeline/home?status=hello+world > > On the Twitter Support page where it talks about the new "mentions" > instead of @replies it has a link that says "Take me back to > Twitter.com" > http://help.twitter.com/portal > > But that "Take me back to Twitter.com" links to: > http://twitter.com/timeline/home > (which gives a 404 for users who *don't* have the new #sidey > searchbar) > > All of that to say, which will be the correct way to link going > forward? I know there's a few apps that prefill the box for the user > that may need to be updated. >
