Summary Twitter’s way of linking URLs is broken. It’s annoying to users, and a pain in the arse to developers. This quick post talks about the problem and offers a solution. I’ve raised a bug with Twitter and I hope you’ll star it as important to you. Summary Twitter’s way of linking URLs is broken. [...]
The Twitter Engineering Team have a set of text processing classes which are meant to simplify and standardise the recognition of URLs, screen names, and hashtags. Dabr makes use of them to keep in conformance with Twitter’s style. One of the advantages of the text processing is that it will recognise that www.example.com is a [...]
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