I have a possibly related problem. We also use an inhouse shortener that returns a 301 redirect, but Twitterbot misinterprets the shortened URLs. The usual search engine bots follow the redirect correctly, as far as I can tell.
Each tweet results in a frenzy of 404s from API users who have received the incorrect URL. Mousing over the shortened URL on Twitter.com shows the incorrect URL in the title tooltip. Fortunately for now, it seems we are not subject to t.co wrapping so the original, correct short URLs can be clicked by Twitter.com users. The incorrectly interpreted URL is always the same. We've set it up to redirect to our home page so all is not lost. Any ideas what could be going on here? Thanks, Ken On Feb 14, 2:04 am, ctrand <[email protected]> wrote: > Any ideas on this one guys? > > On Feb 10, 4:06 pm, ctrand <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > I have a bunch of shortened urls which are resolved/redirected to full > > urls by my webapp. > > > e.g. > > >http://dealush.com/sale/2wml > > > resolves to > > >http://dealush.com/shopping-sales/2wml/sydney-sale-8-off-at-catwalk-w... > > > When I tweet the short URL, sometimes the data-expanded-url attribute > > is populated for the url and when I mouseover it I can see the full > > url. However sometimes it is not populated, and there is no data- > > expanded-url attribute at all! > > > I am wondering if anyone can shed some light onto why it would be so. > > > I am also thinking that this is affecting the counters on my tweet > > buttons, as tweets that do have an URL with the data-expanded-url > > attribute give a +1 for the counter, and those that do not have a data- > > expanded-url don't. > > > Does something need to happen for the data-expanded-url value to > > populate? Or perhaps there something wrong with some of my URLS? > > > Note: THe example URL above does have a data-expanded-url value. > > > Thanks in advance, > > > Carl > > > PS - Please let me know if you need any additional information from me > > and it will be forthcoming! -- 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
