Yeh we have the same problem with www.LiveBaseballChat.com <http://www.livebaseballchat.com/>
Even though we keep the messages under 140 characters and put the CHurl links at the start of the message Twitter still truncates the urls into bitly links..... which wouldn't be so bad if it was just a URL but our CHurls are structured links eg this fake link below. * <http://www.livebaseballchat.com/CHurl/09/04/11/10/A1234F> > > Made up of the following constitute parts > > URL/ Live Baseballchat.com > > CHurl/ Word > > 09/ Year > > 04/ Month > > 11/ Date > > 10/ Room number > > A1234FG/ Message number I'm hoping that eventually once Twitter starts offering commercial accounts that 'non bitly' truncation is one of the features that paid accounts will be able to pay for. Regards, Dean Collins Cognation Inc [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> +1-212-203-4357 New York +61-2-9016-5642 (Sydney in-dial). +44-20-3129-6001 (London in-dial). ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Abraham Williams Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 9:11 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [twitter-dev] Re: stopping bit.ly automatic shortening of urls 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.com to 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.
