Re: [twitter-dev] Entities display_url and expanded_url

2010-09-13 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi Rich, You can't be guaranteed to always have a display_url (there will be many historical tweets without it, or perhaps the service that negotiates display_urls will be down), so you should code defensively, making use of them when they are present but choosing an alternate display method when

[twitter-dev] Entities display_url and expanded_url

2010-09-11 Thread Rich
Hi I have a question for the API team. I notice that display_url doesn't contain the protocol e.g. http:// or https:// yet expanded_url does. Would I be safe to assume that a http://t.co/xx would always contain an expanded_url as well as a display_url? Richard -- Twitter developer documen