Does anyone have any thoughts on the issue Ken and I are looking at? On Feb 15, 11:04 pm, "Ken D." <k...@cimas.ch> wrote: > 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 <ctr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Any ideas on this one guys? > > > On Feb 10, 4:06 pm, ctrand <ctr...@gmail.com> 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!
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