Thanks for the clarification and bug link Matt!

I understand how big of a pain supporting this legacy method must be,
especially given the fundamental changes in #newtwitter. I just wanted
to emphasize how many sites still use this and probably aren't in a
position to easily figure out how to fix it.

Thanks,
-jonathan

On May 18, 5:48 pm, Matt Harris <thematthar...@twitter.com> wrote:
> Hi Jonathan,
>
> This is being investigated by our engineers at the moment. We'll be posting
> updates to this ticket on our issue tracker:
>    http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=1650
>
> Best,
> @themattharris
> Developer Advocate, Twitterhttp://twitter.com/themattharris
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Jonathan Strauss <jonat...@awe.sm> wrote:
> > I'm totally with you guys on the value of switching to web intents,
> > and we recommend all our customers doing new implementations use them.
> > However, there are just too many legacy implementations against the
> > "old hack", as Taylor deemed it, for you to expect everyone to switch
> > over in such a timeframe. For a very long time the /?status= method
> > was the only way to tweet from a website and web intents are only a
> > few months old, so I hope you guys don't diminish the priority of
> > fixing this bug just because you want to force everyone to the new way
> > of doing things.
>
> > -jonathan
>
> > On May 18, 7:50 am, Taylor Singletary <taylorsinglet...@twitter.com>
> > wrote:
> > > Hi Omar,
>
> > > Sorry for the confusion -- we recommend Web Intents as we've developed
> > the
> > > Tweet Intent specifically for this purpose -- let us know what tweaks you
> > > think the display needs to "look good" in a full browser tab. Intents are
> > > optimized to load quickly and service the user's intent as efficiently as
> > > possible -- the old way requires a more significant load time and invites
> > > the user to engage in all kinds of other fun Twitter activity aside from
> > > tweeting -- maybe they'll even forget why you sent them there in the
> > first
> > > place.
>
> > > This is a bug and while I don't have an ETA on when it will be fixed, it
> > was
> > > not intentional and this old hack has not been deprecated.
>
> > > @episod <http://twitter.com/episod> - Taylor Singletary
>
> > > On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 5:34 PM, omegdadi <omegd...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Hey There,
>
> > > > +1. This issue is affecting all of our products at the moment. I can't
> > > > find any notification anywhere about this being deprecated today.
> > > > Please restore this functionality. And allow us some time to migrate
> > > > w/ a date in mind. If it's no longer going to be supported, we need to
> > > > know sooner as we have clients waiting for an answer at the moment. We
> > > > would like to use intents, but we need a full page to send the user to
> > > > since we can't always open a popup window (ie from Flash.) and that
> > > > page doesn't look good in a full browser tab.
>
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Omar
>
> > > > On May 17, 3:05 pm, Arnaud Meunier <arn...@twitter.com> wrote:
> > > > > Hey Yahel,
>
> > > > > Meet Web Intents:http://dev.twitter.com/pages/intents(takealook on
> > the
> > > > > "intent/tweet" intent). It really is super easy to implement. For
> > > > example:http://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=foobar
>
> > > > > Arnaud / @rno <http://twitter.com/rno>
>
> > > > > On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 1:18 PM, Yahel Carmon <yah...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > > > > Hey,
>
> > > > > > We've just noticed that auto-populating tweets using
> > > > > >http://twitter.com/home/?status=foobarnolongerworks.
>
> > > > > > Has this feature been totally removed, or is this a temporary
> > glitch?
> > > > > > (Perversely,http://twitter.com/?status=foobarworks, but that was
> > the
> > > > > > older method that broke last year and we were told to add /home to
> > fix
> > > > it.)
>
> > > > > > I know we're supposed to move to the official Tweet button, but we
> > have
> > > > a
> > > > > > very large scale CRM that still relies on the old method.
>
> > > > > > Please let me know ASAP, as we have a lot of broken tweet links in
> > the
> > > > > > wild.
>
> > > > > > Thanks,
>
> > > > > > Yahel
>
> > > > > > --
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