cool, that seems to have worked. Just that it's a funny character to work with: ۔ - try and you'll see
Anyway it probably defeats the URL parsing. On Nov 5, 5:11 pm, "Ken D." <k...@cimas.ch> wrote: > ۔ > the above Unicode character is the closest I could find to a dot, > without being a dot... > > On Nov 5, 11:15 am, Damien <thequietdr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > I am in need of developing a JS manner of making a tweeter post that > > is slightly different from what Twitter already offers (I mean the > > Tweet button). > > > THe post I need to make comes under this form: > > > "Please visit AAAAA.BBB using <very long URL here>" > > > If I use the Tweet button, the very long URL is shortened (ok) but the > > company name which is close to an URL form is also rewritened as a > > short URL (wrong). I need to have the company name left alone somehow, > > yet keeping the current form AAAAA.BBB in plain text (or as a URL, but > > not shortened) as well as the shortened long URL. > > > Is there a way to tell twitter to not forcibly shorten an URL that's > > not in full URL format? Or at least mark the first one to be skipped > > from shortening? (I could do this if I would manually shorten the long > > URL, but I cannot do that in my production system, I still need > > Twitter to handle that). > > > I need a JS-only solution and until now nothing I tried works. > > > Thanks! -- 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
