On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 10:17 AM, Nick Arnett <nick.arn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 6:14 AM, Bjoern <bjoer...@googlemail.com> wrote: > >> >> Hi, >> >> The problem is: how to find tweets that point to a certain URL. Most >> of those tweets would use a shortened version of the URL, and most of >> them probably bit.ly. Bit.ly does not provide a way to list all >> shortened versions of a URL, and creates individually shortened >> versions of each URL per User (namely, the twitter user, so there is >> no way to find the URL that is created via Twitter status updates - >> which would probably be the most common URL). > > > The solution is to go about this the opposite way. > > Bit.ly will return the same shortened URL for any request using the same > source URL. So, use bit.ly to shorten the URL, then search Twitter for > the bit.ly URL you get back. The same is true for other URL shortening > services and the more popular ones all have APIs. > > Nick > But I believe bit.ly returns different, unique URLs for logged-in users, and some people/clients are autoshortening their own URLs in various fashions for various reasons. Thanks- - Andy Badera - and...@badera.us - Google me: http://www.google.com/search?q=andrew+badera - This email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private
