Comments on: Sonic.net updates via Twitter

By: augie

augie — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 03:55:07 +0000

160 characters is the SMS standard, Twitter shortens that to 140 for padding and user names; you can find out more by checking out the Official Twitter API page here:

http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/web/api-documentation

By: Eric

Eric — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 23:42:03 +0000

Err, s/160/140/;

By: Eric

Eric — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 17:52:58 +0000

You need a little more code.

Funny truncated messages that chop off in the middle of words and make me wonder where to find out more…

I think simply sticking a URL (preferably shortened with something like WWW::Shorten::Metamark) at the start would be a good start…

Tacking it onto the end’s a little more complicated…

use WWW::Shorten::Metamark;
my $short_url = makeashorterlink($long_url);
$final_message = substr($message,0,160 – length($short_url) – 1)) . ‘ ‘ . $short_url;
$twit->update($message);