I believe in that case the url is just truncated and gone. I believe this only works when shortening it with bit.ly still wouldn't make the tweet fewer than 140 characters. Though it seems unfortunate to lose the url, in a sense you aren't missing data because *no one* gets that url so ultimately it doesn't really exist :)
I'd imagine this is fairly rare, yes? I'd recommend just giving up and skipping the tweet if the url isn't fully formed. On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 6:51 AM, Adam Green <a...@vibemetrix.com> wrote: > > I'm extracting URLs from tweets, and some of them are truncated at the > end of a tweet. The URL ends up as something like http://domain... > > I can't find anything in the API that will let me get the full URL, so > I assume it is lost. Is this correct, or is there some trick to get > back the entire URL before truncation? > -- Marcel Molina Twitter Platform Team http://twitter.com/noradio
