Hey David, The Tweet Button will share your URL as a t.co link that redirects to the URL you provide (in your case: t.co --> bit.ly --> final destination). If you're using the count box, think also to set the "counturl" parameter to the final destination. Cf exemple here: http://dev.twitter.com/pages/tweet_button#using-shorturl
Arnaud / @rno <http://twitter.com/rno> On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 3:48 PM, David Harkness <dharkn...@gmail.com> wrote: > Greetings all, > > Our site currently has a Tweet button for news articles and reviews > with correctly styling and retweet count. We are using Bitly to > shorten the URLs on the backend, but this has caused us to hit the > rate limit. > > To solve this I created a controller to do the shortening when the > user clicks the Tweet button and redirect to Twitter's share URL, and > I changed the Tweet button to point to this controller instead of > twitter.com. However, the Twitter JavaScript is overwriting my URL. Is > there any way to tell the JS API to leave the URL alone so we can call > our own URL? > > Alternatively, are there any analytics available with Twitter's URL > shortener that we can access? The only reason we need Bitly is for > real-time analytics, and if t.co URLs can provide us the same features > we'd be more than happy to use them. > > Thanks, > David > > -- > Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc > API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi > Issues/Enhancements Tracker: > http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list > Change your membership to this group: > http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk > -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
