But it doesnt hurt to tiny them beforehand. Then you can guarantee this wont
happen and you know the exact char count prior to a post.
in php:
function tinyURL($u){
return file_get_contents('
http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url='.$u);
}
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Doug Williams <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> This was an abnormal circumstance.
>
> Doug Williams
> Twitter API Support
> http://twitter.com/dougw
>
>
>
> 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
> >
>
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