** Description changed: - Twitter changed to a new character limit of 280 characters: - https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/topics/product/2017/tweetingmadeeasier.html + [Impact] + + * Twitter changed the character limit of tweets to 280 [1], users of + corebird in artful are only able to compose tweets with 140 characters. + + * Backporting the fix to the stable release is necessary to incorporate + changes of Twitters web service. + + + [Test Case] + + * Open corebird, login with your twitter account + + * Try to compose a tweet with 280 characters + + * Result: Without the patch only 140 characters are possible + + + [Regression Potential] + + * I don't see any regression potential, only one constant in the source code + is changed and the same change is applied upstream[2] for weeks now with + no reported bug. + + + [1] https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/topics/product/2017/tweetingmadeeasier.html + + [2] + https://github.com/baedert/corebird/commit/d3cc0b068b4f3b1d0d97e4bd7c9e723d002636c1 + + + Original bug report: + + ----- + Twitter changed to a new character limit of 280 characters: https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/topics/product/2017/tweetingmadeeasier.html The Corebird dev already changed the limit for corebird: https://github.com/baedert/corebird/commit/d3cc0b068b4f3b1d0d97e4bd7c9e723d002636c1 please update the repo Packages to include this patch. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10 Package: corebird 1.6-1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-16.19-generic 4.13.4 Uname: Linux 4.13.0-16-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3.1 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: Unity:Unity7:ubuntu Date: Wed Nov 8 11:27:10 2017 InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-09-28 (1501 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Beta amd64 (20130925.1) SourcePackage: corebird UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to artful on 2017-06-30 (131 days ago)
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