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Old 05-04-2009, 04:13 PM
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Has anyone else noticed that Twitter has stopped auto-shortening URLs?
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I never noticed twitter doing it in the first place. I did notice they have added a little dictionary thingy on the RHS and replaced "@Replies" with "@yourname"
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I never noticed twitter doing it in the first place.
It used to automatically parse the longer URLs via tinyurl.com

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I did notice they have added a little dictionary thingy on the RHS and replaced "@Replies" with "@yourname"
They're now using the search API for "mentions" ie. any tweet that contains your username should now appear there
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