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On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 5:36 AM, Sotos <[email protected]> wrote: > > Many of my URLs are now broken because of this issue. Is it going to > be fixed any time soon or should I shorten my URLs myself before > sending them to Twitter from now on? > > On Apr 2, 8:45 pm, Alex Payne <[email protected]> wrote: >> TinyURL was running quite slow, so we temporarily disabled our >> automatic shortening of long URLs. >> >> We're currently working on a project to make the shortening of URLs >> more consistent and predictable. We know it's currently kind of a >> guessing game as to what will be shortened, and we want to fix that. >> >> >> >> On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 22:20, bcballard <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > I use the Twitter API to post article titles followed by a link to the >> > article, and sometimes a repeat of the domain name if I think Twitter >> > is going to tinyurl me. Generaly Twitter converts URLs with characters >> > it doesn't like [^A-Za-z0-9.:/], or URLs in tweets that are too long, >> > to tinyurls. >> >> > However, this evening, none of the URLs I posted were converted to >> > tinyurls. Not even the ones with characters Twitter doesn't like, and >> > not the one that was too long. >> >> > Here are the status updates I expected to be tinyurled, followed by a >> > link to the individual tweet as it appeared on Twitter. >> >> > The first 3 contain bad characters (underscores or commas), but are >> > fewer than 140 chars: >> >> > GA approves more charter schools >> >http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/stories/2009/04/01/georgia_cha... >> > (ajc.com) >> >> >http://twitter.com/GeorgiaLogCabin/status/1436345350 >> >> > Obama's tax pledge up in >> > smokehttp://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090401/ap_on_go_pr_wh/obama_tax_promise >> > (news.yahoo.com) >> >> >http://twitter.com/GeorgiaLogCabin/status/1436192094 >> >> > Sweden recognizes marriage equality >> >http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25277939-12335,00.... >> > (theaustralian.news.com.au) >> >> >http://twitter.com/GeorgiaLogCabin/status/1436147039 >> >> > This one has bad characters (dashes) and is longer than 140 chars: >> >> > Obama wants anti-gay advisor >> >http://www.usnews.com/blogs/god-and-country/2009/03/31/exclusive-form... >> > (usnews.com) >> >> >http://twitter.com/GeorgiaLogCabin/status/1436319188 >> >> > That last one shows onhttp://twitter.com/GeorgiaLogCabinwith a >> > truncated URL that causes it to link to a broken story. However, on >> > the individual Tweet link above, the URL is not truncated and works >> > fine... >> >> > So I have one main question with a few possible answers: >> >> > Q: What happened to Twitter's auto-tinyurl convert? >> >> > Possible answers? >> >> > A1: Tinyurl just happened to be down during the time I was posting >> > updates, so Twitter couldn't request tinyurls and used my long ones >> > (though other people's tweets before, during and after mine appear to >> > be tinyurled as normal.) >> >> > A2: Twitter just this evening stopped tinyurl-ing my tweets, but not >> > anybody else's (at least not anyone I happen to follow.) >> >> > A3: Some Twitter bug nobody's aware of (I searched the FAQs, this >> > message board, and via Google and didn't find anyone else with this >> > particular issue.) >> >> > A4: Some other reason? >> >> > Any ideas? >> >> -- >> Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc.http://twitter.com/al3x >
