Agreed, this would make a lot of sense for Twitter to return, especially as the t.co link wrapping gets rolled out.
On Aug 6, 3:17 pm, Tom <allerleiga...@gmail.com> wrote: > I agree - it would be nice to have this. Possibly as an entity? > <http://dev.twitter.com/pages/tweet_entities> > > Tom > > On Aug 6, 6:35 pm, Brian Medendorp <brian.medend...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > I can see that twitter itself must be resolving any shortened URLs > > somewhere, because if you search for a domain name (such as > > amazon.com), you get a bunch of results that don't seem to match until > > you resolve the shortened URL in the tweet and see that it points to > > the domain you searched for, which is fantastic! > > > However, I am wondering if there is any way to get those resolved URLs > > from the API, or (better yet) if there is anyway that those URLs could > > be exposed in the search results themselves. Currently, I am resolving > > the URLs myself by requesting the URL and saving the resulting > > location, but that starts to take a while when there are a lot of > > results returned.