On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 8:36 AM, John Erling Blad <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes I know you can do that, and in fact its what I do right now. The > problem is that a few extra chars has a lot of impact in Twitter. A > betetr approach would be if it was legal to write something like > wikipedia.org/en/123456789 (26 chars) compared to > en.wikipedia.org/aid/123456789 (30 chars) or > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=123456789 (44 chars). To get around > the problem I use bit.ly for a bot, but its a bit stupid to not handle > this in wikipedia itself.
This seems moot to me because it's handled in *Twitter* itself. All URLs in a tweet are converted to t.co shortcuts that are twenty characters long (while abbreviated versions of the destination URLs should be shown when the tweet is viewed). More information is here: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-api-announce/browse_thread/thread/14d5474c13ed84aa. Madman _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
