[twitter-dev] Re: Our own redirecting URL is being changed to a bit.ly URL
Hi, If it can be in any help, I have a kind of private url shortening service that I could adapt to your needs. www.fwd.li. I can't really design the page because I am blind (the reason why there is no logo). However it might come handy to have an url shortening api service designed individually for your apps. I currently support plain text and xml output. Cheers, Emrah P.s.: if someone is interested in making a logo, you're welcome. If someone else would like to carry on the dev, welcome as well. :) TjL wrote: On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 10:48 PM, Cameron Kaiser spec...@floodgap.com wrote: The best you can do is use the bit.ly API to un-shorten the link and grab your URL key from there. Have a look at the /expand method in their API: http://code.google.com/p/bitly-api/wiki/ApiDocumentation Or, implement your own URL shortening scheme (either internally, or using a specific service that meets your needs), with the assumption that the shortening will occur and at least this way you can control the situation under how the shortening is handled. I believe that Twitter will shorten links over 30 characters, but this does not *always* seem to be the case. Your best bet (IMO) is to determine which service you want to use and shorten the links yourself. I started putting together a list of them not too long ago and came up with these: bit.ly xrl.us tr.im snipr.com tinyarro.ws tinyurl.com icanhaz.com budurl.com There are, no doubt, others.
[twitter-dev] Re: Our own redirecting URL is being changed to a bit.ly URL
Hi Emrah, I ended up using bitly, but thanks. On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 3:10 AM, Emrah KAVUN e...@ekanet.net wrote: Hi, If it can be in any help, I have a kind of private url shortening service that I could adapt to your needs. www.fwd.li. I can't really design the page because I am blind (the reason why there is no logo). However it might come handy to have an url shortening api service designed individually for your apps. I currently support plain text and xml output. Cheers, Emrah P.s.: if someone is interested in making a logo, you're welcome. If someone else would like to carry on the dev, welcome as well. :) TjL wrote: On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 10:48 PM, Cameron Kaiser spec...@floodgap.com wrote: The best you can do is use the bit.ly API to un-shorten the link and grab your URL key from there. Have a look at the /expand method in their API: http://code.google.com/p/bitly-api/wiki/ApiDocumentation Or, implement your own URL shortening scheme (either internally, or using a specific service that meets your needs), with the assumption that the shortening will occur and at least this way you can control the situation under how the shortening is handled. I believe that Twitter will shorten links over 30 characters, but this does not *always* seem to be the case. Your best bet (IMO) is to determine which service you want to use and shorten the links yourself. I started putting together a list of them not too long ago and came up with these: bit.ly xrl.us tr.im snipr.com tinyarro.ws tinyurl.com icanhaz.com budurl.com There are, no doubt, others.
[twitter-dev] Re: Our own redirecting URL is being changed to a bit.ly URL
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 10:48 PM, Cameron Kaiser spec...@floodgap.com wrote: The best you can do is use the bit.ly API to un-shorten the link and grab your URL key from there. Have a look at the /expand method in their API: http://code.google.com/p/bitly-api/wiki/ApiDocumentation Or, implement your own URL shortening scheme (either internally, or using a specific service that meets your needs), with the assumption that the shortening will occur and at least this way you can control the situation under how the shortening is handled. I believe that Twitter will shorten links over 30 characters, but this does not *always* seem to be the case. Your best bet (IMO) is to determine which service you want to use and shorten the links yourself. I started putting together a list of them not too long ago and came up with these: bit.ly xrl.us tr.im snipr.com tinyarro.ws tinyurl.com icanhaz.com budurl.com There are, no doubt, others.
[twitter-dev] Re: Our own redirecting URL is being changed to a bit.ly URL
They were not doing this (at least to my URLS) on Monday and they were on Tuesday... Best, Nancy On May 19, 9:59 pm, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 10:47 PM, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: When did Twitter switch to usingbit.lyanyways? Sometime last week, if I recall. Looking at the stats for spammy links is incredible... people will click anything (tho I can't tell how many of the clicks are actually other twitter link tracking services like twitturly, etc). -Chad
[twitter-dev] Re: Our own redirecting URL is being changed to a bit.ly URL
Thanks very much for the advice! I've done as you suggested and added a call to the bit.ly API to shorten our URL and that seems to be working. If this is a feature, it is a very irritating one, I must say, but oh well. Best, Nancy On May 20, 9:04 am, Howard Siegel hsie...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 06:59, TjL luo...@gmail.com wrote: Your best bet (IMO) is to determine which service you want to use and shorten the links yourself. I started putting together a list of them not too long ago and came up with these: bit.ly xrl.us tr.im snipr.com tinyarro.ws tinyurl.com icanhaz.com budurl.com There are, no doubt, others. is.gd
[twitter-dev] Re: Our own redirecting URL is being changed to a bit.ly URL
You are correct, Twitter is doing the bit.ly conversion on their end.
They automatically shorten URLs based on some set of metrics (I think
character length and formatting have something to do with it), and
there's no (current) way to suppress this behavior when posting.
The best you can do is use the bit.ly API to un-shorten the link and
grab your URL key from there.
Have a look at the /expand method in their API:
http://code.google.com/p/bitly-api/wiki/ApiDocumentation
-Chad
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 6:04 PM, Nancy M nmira...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm using perl (NET::Twitter) to submit a status update. The update
consists of a text string and a URL of our tracker module. The
purpose of this is to allow us to track any sales that arise as a
result of the clickthrough and associate them with the source.
It appears that the URL is being changed:
The source reads (for instance)
Added Item: 5.25 carats princess diamond pave engagement ring new
http://tias.com/cgi-bin/tw.fcgi/itemKey=3923612043
where http://tias.com/cgi-bin/tw.fcgi/itemKey=3923612043 is the key to
our tracker and the page that is eventually served is
http://www.earthling.com/13527/PictPage/3923612043.html (that latter
was determined from http://www.earthling.com/13527/PictPage/3923612043.html)
which is a very very handy tool, I must say.
However, when I interrogate the text from twitter, it turns out that
our URL has been changed to a bit.ly one:
p $result-{text}
Added Item: 5.25 carats princess diamond pave engagement ring new
http://bit.ly/11qkU1
I've dug down through the LWP::userAgent level and it seriously
appears that this change is happening at Twitter
Firstly, it isn't on our bit.ly account (and I really don't want to
use bit.ly for this) and second why is this happening?
Any advice?
Am I missing something critical in the documentation someplace?
[twitter-dev] Re: Our own redirecting URL is being changed to a bit.ly URL
If you don't want to use bit.ly shorten the urls with the shortener of your
choice first.
When did Twitter switch to using bit.ly anyways?
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 17:24, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote:
You are correct, Twitter is doing the bit.ly conversion on their end.
They automatically shorten URLs based on some set of metrics (I think
character length and formatting have something to do with it), and
there's no (current) way to suppress this behavior when posting.
The best you can do is use the bit.ly API to un-shorten the link and
grab your URL key from there.
Have a look at the /expand method in their API:
http://code.google.com/p/bitly-api/wiki/ApiDocumentation
-Chad
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 6:04 PM, Nancy M nmira...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm using perl (NET::Twitter) to submit a status update. The update
consists of a text string and a URL of our tracker module. The
purpose of this is to allow us to track any sales that arise as a
result of the clickthrough and associate them with the source.
It appears that the URL is being changed:
The source reads (for instance)
Added Item: 5.25 carats princess diamond pave engagement ring new
http://tias.com/cgi-bin/tw.fcgi/itemKey=3923612043
where http://tias.com/cgi-bin/tw.fcgi/itemKey=3923612043 is the key to
our tracker and the page that is eventually served is
http://www.earthling.com/13527/PictPage/3923612043.html (that latter
was determined from
http://www.earthling.com/13527/PictPage/3923612043.html)
which is a very very handy tool, I must say.
However, when I interrogate the text from twitter, it turns out that
our URL has been changed to a bit.ly one:
p $result-{text}
Added Item: 5.25 carats princess diamond pave engagement ring new
http://bit.ly/11qkU1
I've dug down through the LWP::userAgent level and it seriously
appears that this change is happening at Twitter
Firstly, it isn't on our bit.ly account (and I really don't want to
use bit.ly for this) and second why is this happening?
Any advice?
Am I missing something critical in the documentation someplace?
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[twitter-dev] Re: Our own redirecting URL is being changed to a bit.ly URL
The best you can do is use the bit.ly API to un-shorten the link and grab your URL key from there. Have a look at the /expand method in their API: http://code.google.com/p/bitly-api/wiki/ApiDocumentation Or, implement your own URL shortening scheme (either internally, or using a specific service that meets your needs), with the assumption that the shortening will occur and at least this way you can control the situation under how the shortening is handled. -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- MOVIE IDEA: The E-mail Signature Who Loved Me --
[twitter-dev] Re: Our own redirecting URL is being changed to a bit.ly URL
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 10:47 PM, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: When did Twitter switch to using bit.ly anyways? Sometime last week, if I recall. Looking at the stats for spammy links is incredible... people will click anything (tho I can't tell how many of the clicks are actually other twitter link tracking services like twitturly, etc). -Chad
