Howdy, I'm writing an iPad app that has a "Share via Twitter" feature. I'm trying to understand how to count characters, including URLs before I post to the API. I thought these might be FAQs, but "t.co" does not show up in the FAQ and has only two hits via Google's search of this list, so I apologize if these are in fact FAQs.
So I tried to post a new status message that was longer than 140 characters, but I counted the URL as only 19 characters, per [this message][] from Raffi. Unfortunately, the API rejected the message as too long. So my questions are: * Should I be counting URLs as only 19 characters? * If so, will the Twitter API be adjusted to count URLs as only 19 characters, and not reject messages that are longer because the URLs are longer? * And if that's the plan, when is it likely to happen? * And should I also count URLs that are less than 19 characters as 19 characters, on the assumption that they will *always* be wrapped? Ah, I just did a search for "link wrap" and say [this thread][] from September. Doesn't look like there was an official answer from Twitter -- did I miss it? If not, does anyone have any idea when there might be more information on this stuff and how it will affect the API? Thanks, David [this message]: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/msg/9bdd19b025fe0cba? [this thread]: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/dacc3bdc5b1e1d67 -- 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
