RE this thread: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/cd95ce07be341223/e174915c3ea94e69?lnk=gst&q=140
It's been three months since an apparently-silent not-backwards- compatible API change went into effect that causes tweets longer than 140 characters to be ignored, but generate a success reply with no way to know for sure whether the tweet was actually accepted, or why it might have been ignored if it was. The docs haven't even been updated... they still say that too-long tweets will be forcefully truncated (and marked as such in the reply). Since Twitter can diddle the text of the tweet, and it's apparently unclear exactly what Twitter might count as a character, there seems to be no way that an app can know ahead of time whether a tweet is within the limits, and no easy way to find out whether it's actually been accepted. Sigh.
