This might be relevant to your interests: http://daringfireball.net/2009/11/liberal_regex_for_matching_urls
Something definitely changed in the twitter web front-end code which is borking url matching as of a month or so ago... -Chad On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 2:44 AM, Harshad RJ <[email protected]> wrote: > Although not an API issue, it might be good to track it as such, because > Twitter clients can then follow exactly the same policies that Twitter web > interface does. > If there is a standard regular expression that can be used for detecting a > URL, it could be published as a guideline in the API documentation for > consistency between all clients. > cheers, > Harshad > > On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 2:45 AM, Raffi Krikorian <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> its not an API issue -- the API doesn't do any auto-URLification. >> however, i'll pass this thread off to the web client team. >> >> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 1:13 PM, dbasch <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> I agree. I searched the issues db and didn't find it. Not sure if it >>> belongs as an API issue but I submitted it anyway. >>> >>> http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=1298 >>> > > -- > Harshad RJ > http://hrj.wikidot.com >
