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Doug Williams
Twitter API Support
http://twitter.com/dougw


On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Doug Williams <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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/home URL 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 <[email protected]> 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.
>>
>
>

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