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Re: Ubiquity

Chris Heath — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 20:35:57 -0000

no prob... my blog is the same way... aksimet's caught over a million spam msgs in just about 3 years now.

about the 140 chars: it makes sense to keep it standard... twitter's kind of going the way of MicroSoft if you ask me in that their trying to make twitter better by breaking compatability (or something like that)

anywho... glad to see you've joined the TWiT Army

catch u on the flip side
chris

Re: Ubiquity

Ben Atkin — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 19:49:27 -0000

D'oh! I haven't had a legitimate comment in months so I haven't been checking my moderation queue. Sorry about that.

I'm glad you found my command interesting. Feel free to make changes on it and post it anywhere. And yes, it does constrict it to the 140 character limit. I'd rather be overly restricting than risk posting tweets that users have to expand by clicking on a link (when a tweet gets posted that's longer than 140 characters, the first 140 characters are shown, followed by a "..." hyperlink that can be clicked to show the full tweet).

Re: Ubiquity

Chris Heath — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 11:21:27 -0000

So it looks like it worked! :-)

I'm now wondering if your ubiquity command makes sure the max length is 140 or less, or if it allows over (since twitter allows up to 160)

From what I gathered from you js code it does constrict to the 140 limit.

Am I right?

Cheers,
Chris

Re: Ubiquity

Chris Heath — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 10:58:52 -0000

Ben,

Found your blog doing a google search for 'ubiquity shortener is.gd' hoping to find a command that similar to the built in tiny shortener.

I've recently joined Leo Laporte's Laconica instance (http://army.twit.tv/ccheath) and really like it a lot.

One of our members created a knock-off of the twitter ubiquity command to post to the army. They basically changed very little, but the max length was set back to 140.

So after reading your post I had an idea.

I've already installed the is.gd firefox extension, and the twitter and army commands for ubiquity already tell you how many characters you have left. So I just right click the page, and create an is.gd link, then paste it into the ubiquity command. Ubiqity will tell me how many characters I have remaining.

I guess your command will probably save the right-clicking though.

Would you mind if we knock-off your command to use for army? I would like to try it out and see what I can do.

Cheers,
Chris