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?
