Heh, thanks Pat! That was on my To Do list for tonight, I swear :-)

On Sep 28, 9:04 pm, Pat Diven II <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hey Jonathan, how's the Mission? Figures that I'd find a thread
> started by you for the same issue we're also having. :)
>
> So yes, we're also getting bit by the same issue.  One thing I noticed
> on #newtwitter is that the encoding is mangled during a redirect
> (from /home?status= to /?status=):
>
> Redirect FAILS on 
> #newtwitter:http://twitter.com/home?status=Trying%20out%20URL%20encoding%20%26%20...
>
> Direct URL WORKS on 
> #newtwitter:http://twitter.com/?status=Trying%20out%20URL%20encoding%20%26%20stuf...
>
> Unfortunately we're all not supposed to use the latter method. It
> works on #vintagetwitter but it doesn't preserve the status message
> after the user logs in to either version anyway.
>
> I just submitted the issue because it looks like @jhstrauss didn't get
> around to it yet:http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=1904
>
> Cheers,
> Pat - @micropat
>
> On Sep 24, 8:51 pm, Matt Harris <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hey Jonathan,
>
> > Absolutely! Just wanted to put the Tweet Button out there as an option.
>
> > So we can track this can you file an issue on:
> >    http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list
>
> > I'll keep that updated with progress.
>
> > Thanks,
> > @themattharris
>
> > On Sep 24, 2010, at 18:54, Jonathan Strauss <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > Hey Matt,
>
> > > I know the tweet button very well, and I agree that it's better for
> > > most use-cases (we're actually driving our customers towards using /
> > > share instead of /home?status= for their custom share to Twitter
> > > interfaces). However, all legacy 'Share on Twitter' or 'Tweet This'
> > > implementations (that don't go through OAuth) use /home?status= and if
> > > the things that worked before stop working as #newtwitter rolls out to
> > > the full userbase, it's going to break a lot of stuff for people who
> > > haven't yet had a chance to switch to the tweet button or a custom
> > > integration with /share.
>
> > > Thanks,
> > > -jonathan
>
> > > On Sep 24, 5:47 pm, Matt Harris <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >> Hi Jonathan,
>
> > >> I'll look into this but have you consider using the Tweet Button
> > >> instead. Using the Tweet Button gives a better experience and means
> > >> users don't need to leave your website to tweet your message.
>
> > >> You can get the Tweet Button on our Goodies page:
> > >>    http://twitter.com/goodies/tweetbutton
>
> > >> or create your own using the developer resources:
> > >>    http://dev.twitter.com/pages/tweet_button
>
> > >> Best,
> > >> @themattharris
>
> > >> On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Jonathan Strauss <[email protected]> 
> > >> wrote:
> > >>> The following link works fine for users with access to #vintagetwitter
> > >>> but breaks on the first URL encoded & (%26) or # (%23) for users with
> > >>> #newtwitter:
> > >>>http://twitter.com/home?status=Trying+out+URL+encoding+%26+stuff+on+%...
>
> > >>> Is this intentional?
>
> > >>> Thanks,
> > >>> -jonathan
>
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