My reply yesterday got swallowed by Google it seems... On Jun 18, 4:58 pm, Matt Sanford <[email protected]> wrote: > Twitter disabled the automatic URL shortening if there is any > slowness or other problem accessing the shortener.
Thanks for the clarification! > simply because a shortening service failed to respond in time. As far > as bit.ly goes, they do have an API [1] for getting all of the short > versions of a long URL, so you might want to give that a shot. We've I don't think they do - even on the bit.ly development group they said that they don't. Which API call would return the variants? It is odd because on the web site of bit.ly it is possible to see the variants. But they confirmed to me that they don't provide it through the API (yet). That was a couple of weeks ago, but I still can't see an API call that would do it. They seem to return all users who have shortened an URL, but since there is no way to retrieve the user-specific variant of an URL, it does not help much. Björn
