yeah - its definitely case that counting characters will become a bit more subtle. i hope that we can provide a really good and easy way to help you all out. at the very least we are going to update documentation, but i know we can do better than that.
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 8:17 PM, Andy Matsubara <andymatsub...@gmail.com>wrote: > Raffi wrote: > > related to this: the way the Twitter API counts characters is going to > change ever so slightly. our 140 > > characters is now going to be defined as 140 characters after link > wrapping. t.co links are of a > > predictable length -- they will always be 20 characters. after we make > this live, it will be feasible to > > send in the text for a status that is greater than 140 characters. the > rule is after the link wrapping, > > the text transforms to 140 characters or fewer. we'll be using the same > logic that is in twitter-text-rb > > to figure out what is a URL. > I guess this change will make frontend text handling more difficult. > Counting characters in a text box must figure out what is a URL. I > hope Twitter will publish JavaScript library for realtime character > counts. I also want APIs to make shortened URL. > > Andy Matsubara > -- Raffi Krikorian Twitter Platform Team http://twitter.com/raffi
