I would not recommend using it yet but Twitter for Mac is using the endpoint /urls/shorten.json?url=http://example.com
http://t.co/6wD3idD Abraham ------------- Abraham Williams | Hacker Advocate | abrah.am @abraham <https://twitter.com/abraham> | github.com/abraham | blog.abrah.am This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private. On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 10:58, David E. Wheeler <da...@kineticode.com>wrote: > On Dec 18, 2010, at 5:17 PM, David E. Wheeler wrote: > > >> Currently the API does not shorten the links for you yet. In the future > Twitter may implement this, but currently you will have to shorten the links > yourself, via (for example) bit.ly. > > > > That's what I thought. Thanks for the confirmation. > > It appears that Twitter 2 for the Mac somehow does what I was describing. > Try typing or pasting a URL into it; it stops counting characters once it > recognizes it as a URL. You can also send tweets that are over 140 > characters due to a long URL; it does the shortening using t.co. How does > it do it? Is there an API for that? > > I'm doing the same thing in my app, but using s.coop. would be nice just > to be able to send stuff to the API an let it do the shortening. I don't > suppose that's how it works… > > Any ideas? > > Best, > > David > > -- > 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 > -- 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
