Comments on: twitterfeed now supports bit.ly, is.gd and urlShort

By: diggma

diggma — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 11:10:56 +0000

Looking great guys, great service

By: jiGGafellz

jiGGafellz — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 03:07:56 +0000

Ahh, nevermind. I just saw the link in the sidebar.

By: jiGGafellz

jiGGafellz — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 03:05:30 +0000

Did support for is.gd get removed?

By: twitterfeed

twitterfeed — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 07:36:15 +0000

Rono8 – could you post your problem at http://getsatisfaction.com/twitterfeed please, making sure you include details like the twitter id you’re posting to, and the feed URL you are posting.

By: Ron08

Ron08 — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 04:52:31 +0000

What is going on with my twitter posts or messages? They’re all saying from the desk of Ron. And it’s not giving me any posts at all. All have tinyurl.com links…please help! Thank you.

By: IntegrityLance

IntegrityLance — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 00:18:32 +0000

Looking great guys, great service

By: IJG

IJG — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:50:41 +0000

Your link for support at the top of this message is wrong.

http://getsatisfaction/twitterfeed.

you forgot the .com

Great Service.. thanks so much. Using it extensively now. If you introduce a premium version can you allow updates more often than 30 minutes?

Thanks.

Ig.

By: twitterfeed

twitterfeed — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 16:11:15 +0000

Hi Roy, at the moment, twitterfeed does URL shortening if the URLs are longer than 25 characters, and leaves them alone if shorter.

One thing to bear in mind is that twitter do their own URL shortening, so if twitterfeed posts a link that’s 40-60 characters long, even if it fit’s into the overall 140 characters, there’s a big chance that twitter will shorten it themselves (they have some custom algorithm for deciding what to shorten and what to leave alone, I don’t have the exact details)

By: Roy

Roy — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 16:03:55 +0000

Just to clarify … my comment really only applies in the title-only case. Obviously, if you start putting part of the description in, you’ll run into the limit pretty quickly.

I would recommend allowing non-shortening of the URL in the title-only case and then truncating the title if necessary to fit and maybe having a fallback of shortening anyway if the URL exceeds some length, like 80 chars. For me, most of my URLs are under 40 chars and none are over 60.

By: Roy

Roy — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:53:22 +0000

Why require shortening at all? I have three blogs and I’d like people to see the blog name in the URL. To run into the 140-character limit of tweets, I’d have to have a blog post subject of 48 characters or more. I’ve never come close to that.