They will link up to 20 but are limited to 15. Hmm
On May 14, 4:59 pm, Tim Rosenblatt trose...@gmail.com wrote:
Hey Craig,
We found an addition to this. Your regex is great, but it doesn't
limit the length of screen names. Twitter doesn't allow signups
greater than 15 chars (but in
Hey Craig,
We found an addition to this. Your regex is great, but it doesn't
limit the length of screen names. Twitter doesn't allow signups
greater than 15 chars (but in tweets, it will actually link up to 20
chars).
So, @abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz will be linked out to
@abcdefghijklmnopqrst
@Doug,
Is this behavour likely to remain? ( I noticed that @replies and -
@replies are successful )
That is to say, I'm sure @replies will work at some point via sms, but
can we rely on the fact that _...@replies do not? Is this related to
there being any chance of it being an email
It looks like they're simply applying this regex as a test:
(?![\w])@username(?![\w])
Thus, if a character on either side is not (a-z, A-Z, 0-9, _) then it
is a mention. any 'word' character (a-z, A-Z, 0-9, _) on either side
of '@screenname' causes the mention to fail.
(I hope I got the regex
ericdoesdot...@gmail.com wrote:
Such a regular expression is used in the Twitter client that I am
related to development. This regular expression. It is the one of .NET
Framework2.0 and VisualBasic.NET2005.
Dim id As New Regex(@[a-zA-Z0-9_]+)
Harry,
There is nothing on the product roadmap that would lead to me believe any of
the findings here will change.
Thanks,
Doug
--
Doug Williams
Twitter Platform Support
http://twitter.com/dougw
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 4:33 AM, hjb ha...@heatonmoor.com wrote:
@Doug,
Is this behavour
The classic definition of an @reply is any tweet that starts with @user. If
you perfrom a to:user (e.g. to:dougw) query at search.twitter.com you will
only get @replies. @replies were converted to mentions after we realized
people didn't just @reply. Mentions are any tweet that contain @user
Thanks Doug, that's a great help.
How about preceding?
i.e. should t...@dougw, _...@dougw or @dougw create mentions? The
main concern here obviously is email addresses.
And finally, are screen names case sensitive? :)
Cheers
On May 11, 6:07 pm, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote:
The
