> > If I post a bit.ly link and Twitter wraps it via t.co, will the > > "unwrapped" display unwrap just the t.co piece, or will it go all the > > way down to the raw URL?
According to the documentation, the display link on Twitter is meant to be whatever link is submitted by the user when tweeting. So if it's a bit.ly link, it should be displayed as bit.ly. However, various clients can (and already do) choose to take their own approach to displaying links (e.g. displaying the canonical URL, the page title, inline content, etc). To my understanding, the one thing that will be consistent across all UIs and clients is that the href will always be the t.co link and it will always wrap whatever link was submitted by the user when tweeting, regardless of how it is displayed. > And in a related question, exactly how is this going to affect character > count? Will it be based on the bit.ly URL, or the t.co URL? I believe all t.co links are 20 characters. -jonathan -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk?hl=en
