140-character dent did not propagate over Twitter bridge
140-character dent did not propagate over Twitter bridge
| Issue ID: | 3461 |
| Issue Category: | bug |
| Component: | plugin |
| Priority: | normal |
| Status: | active |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Version: | 1.0 |
| Keywords: | 140, char limit 140, character count, syndication, twitter, twitterbridge |
This dent:
http://identi.ca/notice/84415222
did not propagate over the Twitter bridge.
This dent:
http://identi.ca/notice/84415285
did:
https://twitter.com/#!/brainwane/status/121256210006671360
The first dent fit exactly in 140 characters; the second was 136 or 137. Was there an off-by-one error in the character count? or does the Twitter bridge, or Twitter itself, count characters differently than Statusnet does?
Updates
#1
This bug relates to Twitter converting its links when submitting over the Twitter API.
Hover your mouse over (or right click->copy link) and you'll see that the "t.co" redirection service is used. This resulted in your link being 1 character longer - and failing Twitter's length test.
I'm not sure if I would say that this should be fixed (is it a Twitter "feature"?). But if it would, I guess it should be done by taking this into account when formatting the status before broadcasting.
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