[twitter-dev] Problem with posting info to twitter account

[Mike Jones]

Does anyone know why I get a bunch of "+" symbols instead of spaces
when I use this code that shoots my intranet posting to my twitter
account?

<?
function tweet($status){
        // Insert your keys/tokens
        $consumerKey = '';
        $consumerSecret = '';
        $OAuthToken = '-';
        $OAuthSecret = '';

        require 'twitteroauth.php';

        $oAu = new TwitterOAuth($consumerKey, $consumerSecret, $OAuthToken,
$OAuthSecret);
        $oAu->post('statuses/update', array('status' => "$status"));
}

function make_jmp_url($url,$login,$appkey,$format = 'xml',$version =
'2.0.1') {
        //create the URL
        $jmp = 'http://api.     /shorten?version='.
$version.'&longUrl='.urlencode($url).'&login='.$login.'&apiKey='.
$appkey.'&format='.$format;

        $response = file_get_contents($jmp);

        if(strtolower($format) == 'json')
        {
                $json = @json_decode($response,true);
                return $json['results'][$url]['shortUrl'];
        }
        else //xml
        {
                $xml = simplexml_load_string($response);
                return 'http://j.mp/'.$xml->results->nodeKeyVal->hash;
        }
}

        $tweet = '';

        $longURL = 'url' . $row->id;
        $shortURL = make_jmp_url($longURL, 'admin', '', 'json');

        $tweet .= urlencode( $row->title );

        if (strlen($tweet) > 119) {
                // shorten status update to fit in 140 with URL
                $tweet = substr($tweet, 0, 116 ) . '...';
        }

        $tweet .= ' - ';
        $tweet .= $shortURL;

        tweet($tweet);


?>

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