Add tr.im as a URL shortening service

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I prefer to use http://tr.im for shortening my urls. It is a very short
domain name (leaving more room for tweet content), and also provides a rich
stats interface.

tr.im publish their API here: http://tr.im/api

Original issue reported on code.google.com by gracewood.ben on 14 Jan 2009 at 9:50

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Attached is a patch for the UrlShorteningService.cs file to add support for 
tr.im.  

Couple notes here:
+ due to logic elsewhere in Witty, the url shortening configured via Witty will 
only
be applied on messages greater than 140 characters

+ Twitter shortens _ANY_ huge urls now by default with bit.ly.  So if you have 
a huge
url but the tweet is less than 140 characters twitter will automagically shrink 
it
for you.

+ A request for the option to automatically shorten large urls regardless of 
tweet
character size will be submitted as an enhancement.

+ I found a bug with how Twitter parses the urls when it is shortening them.  
Test
case is go to the Twitter.com web page and enter
"http://code.google.com/p/wittytwitter/source/browse/#svn/trunk/ExternalDependen
cies"
(without the quotes) and the resulting shortened url is the invalid
"http://bit.ly/QSvgn /trunk/ExternalDependencies" (again w/o the quotes).  This 
url
is shortened correctly directly against bit.ly.  Not really important here but 
FYI.

Original comment by klmcma...@gmail.com on 22 May 2009 at 2:18

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Attachments:

• trim_url_shortener.patch

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Applied patch

Thanks for the additional info. Do you know what the cutoff is where Twitter 
compacts
URL's even if the message is under 140 characters?

Original comment by jongallo...@gmail.com on 25 May 2009 at 7:02

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