Taylor, Thanks for checking on this. I hate asking, but can you give me a rough ETA on when this might be corrected and if it will apply to already posted updates? Reason I ask is because if it is going to take weeks I'll need to put in a temporary fix on the AWeber side.
Thanks again Rodney On Mar 21, 11:26 am, Taylor Singletary <taylorsinglet...@twitter.com> wrote: > Hi there, > > We'll look into this issue; I'm unsure if the non-linkifying of URLs ending > with a dash was intentional or not, but likely was not. > To answer your latter question, tweet entities cannot be written > to/suggested at time of tweet creation unfortunately. > > Thanks, > Taylor > > @episod <http://twitter.com/episod> - Taylor Singletary - Twitter Developer > Advocate > > On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 8:08 AM, roliver <roliv...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I work for AWeber Communications in Huntingdon Valley PA. We provide > > email marketing solutions for small to medium sized businesses and > > have 100,000+ active customers. We utilize the Twitter API to allow a > > customer to automatically post status updates to their twitter account > > when they send out a mailing. The urls in the status updates sometimes > > end with a hyphen. Up until recently, these have been auto-linked > > correctly by twitter. Recently this changed, and the hyphens at the > > end of the link are not included in the links I post to the API. For > > example,http://aweber.com/b/os7-would have linked correctly before, > > but now links tohttp://aweber.com/b/os7instead. Is this a bug or a > > permanent change at Twitter? > > > Is there a way to explicitly define the links that get picked up, > > display_url maybe? I see that complete urls and start / end points > > are included in the entities: urls section of a tweet, but it is not > > clear if I am able to _submit_ the entities section for my own > > posts. > > > Any help is appreciated. > > > -- > > 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
