Closed jmdh closed 12 years ago
Note that it's against Twitter's TOS to make the long URLs clickable, instead of the t.co URLs. One thing I'd consider doing is having a partial expansion - so that twirssi would show: "http://t.co/WIAjHje
I'm currently testing this feature in https://github.com/gedge/twirssi/tree/all_mods
now uploaded to this repo/beta, closing
The default URL shortening that twitter now seems to do is really getting on my nerves. It would be wonderful if twirssi could lengthen these for me before displaying them. It looks like this is possible from the WWW::Shorten API, although it also looks like a module for t.co would have to be written, and that it'd have to get the link target by pretending to visit the URL. Ugh.