Thanks for the hint. It looks like I get get this much in http://www.infonote.com/tw?1234567890123 before it gets converted to bit.ly
I'll look into compression algorithms to see what I can do. On 7 July, 14:11, Abraham Williams <[email protected]> wrote: > There is no way to turn URL shortening off. > > Two ways you could handle this though are: > 1) Keep the URLs short enough that Twitter does not turn them into bitly > links. I don't think the exact size/composition is published so you would > have to experiment to see where that line is. > 2) Shorten it yourself so you can control what comes after the /. It would > not be a direct link but you could parse it. > > Abraham > > > > > > On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 06:42, infopete <[email protected]> wrote: > > > we're writing an application to do live gps tracking with Twitter. > > > We'd like to be able to have a full url in a message which we could > > parse or use as a direct web link. > > > GPS logging will be done on pocket pc based phones and we already have > > a test application available (Twittrack). > > > We're extending the functionality of our silverlight application > >http://tweepware.infonote.comto be able to display live gps updates > > from Twitter. > > > But...... > > > When we post to Twitter using the api our url is always shrunk to a > > bit.ly url. > > > How can we stop this? > > > Regards > > > Pete > > -- > Abraham Williams | Community Evangelist |http://web608.org > Hacker |http://abrah.am|http://twitter.com/abraham > Project |http://fireeagle.labs.poseurtech.com > This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text -
