Shortened display of long retweets

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Why my microblog shortening tweets? Is this cause Twitter dont give them full, 
or is that something inside of microblog? Its really annoying to always go to 
web twitter to see the tweet complete and get the URL to click at.

Example:

Tweet on Twitter: http://twitter.com/antoniojl/status/29004585544

On the radio again in about 3 mins talking about #whenthatcherdies. Listen live 
at http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/bbc_radio_merseyside

Seen on my pidgin in the microblog plugin i get (as retweet of someone i 
follow):

(19:32:11) davorg: RT @antoniojl: On the radio again in about 3 mins talking 
about #whenthatcherdies. Listen live at http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b 
... * rt

And if i click the link it really goes to http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b

Thanks in advance for any information about this.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by torsten....@googlemail.com on 28 Oct 2010 at 4:57

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Simple: go to Twitter.com [1] and notice the maximum message length is 140 
characters. As you are re-tweeting a message, the "RT @antoniojl: " is used as 
prefix to the message, which explains the message being cropped.

Notice that the original message already had the 140 character limit, which was 
the main cause for this somehow tricky "issue".

I'd vote closing this issue as "invalid", although the plug-in could warn the 
user with a message similar to: "Re-tweeting a message this long will cause it 
to be cropped. Are you sure to proceed?"

[1] http://twitter.com/

Original comment by helder.magalhaes on 11 Jan 2011 at 11:28

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You dont get the point: It displays less information then it have. Its not 
about retweet changing anything, its about that Twitter has 140 chars but i 
dont get 140 chars in mbpidgin cause its shortened down.... I dont do any 
"activity" here i just read the tweets, and even URLs are shortened with 
removing the real link, this is all so wrong.. please read the bug report again

Original comment by torsten....@googlemail.com on 27 Jan 2011 at 9:55

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Helder you are missing the point. Microblog is truncating the data twitter is 
sending. This is not a truncating user input issue. The tweet has all of the 
text but micorblog is chopping it off and adding ... for no obvious reason.

On twitter the original tweet is shown in it's entirety and is shown coming 
from the original tweeter not the person who RT'd it, so there is no preceding 
RT @username. Micorblog should perhaps do the same. 

Instead of:
(19:32:11) davorg: RT @antoniojl: On the radio again in about 3 mins talking 
about #whenthatcherdies. Listen live at http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b 
... * rt

Perhaps it should be:
(19:32:11) antoniojl: On the radio again in about 3 mins talking about 
#whenthatcherdies. Listen live at 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/bbc_radio_merseyside
 * rt RT by @davorg

Original comment by gilbert....@whoever.com on 8 Feb 2011 at 9:13

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Original comment by andresen.nils@gmail.com on 15 Feb 2011 at 7:35

• Changed state: Accepted

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I had the same experiance with 
http://twitter.com/sharpcms/status/37104863997333504
In Twitter every retweet is unshortened displayed, however I received:

>(13:31:01) dotnetpro_mag: RT @sharpcms: [kicked] C# vs. JavaScript im IE9: 
Eine sehr schöner Performancevergleich von Stefan zwischen verschiedenen ... 
http://bit ... * rt 

Question is: Do we shorten the the message, or does twitter?

Original comment by andresen.nils@gmail.com on 15 Feb 2011 at 12:09

• Changed title: Shortened display of long retweets

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Is this the same as issue #202 (which was closed). Someone has post a patch for 
that issue and I already merge into SVN. Please try with the code from SVN.

Original comment by somsaks on 16 Feb 2011 at 8:41

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in svn since [[r376]]

Original comment by andresen.nils@gmail.com on 16 Feb 2011 at 2:10

• Changed state: Done

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Can we make a release then someday? I dont compile on my Windows regulary so 
SVN version is a bit hard ;)

Original comment by torsten....@googlemail.com on 16 Feb 2011 at 2:34