799504 - Long retweets are cut off after 140 characters

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: Instant Messaging, defect)

Description

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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/15.0.1
Build ID: 20120907231657

Steps to reproduce:

For Twitter, Thunderbird truncates tweets after 140 characters, even if the tweet is longer than 140 characters when "RT @username" is appended.


Actual results:

Retweets that were created using Twitter's web interface do not count the "RT @username" portion within the 140 character limit.  Consequently, it is common to have retweets that exceed 140 characters when "RT @username" is added.  This is especially problematic when the tweet ends in a link, which is then truncated to e.g. "http:/" or "http://t.co/".


Expected results:

Thunderbird should display the whole tweet, and not truncate tweets after 140 characters.

Comment 1

[Patrick Cloke [:clokep]]

This was fixed in Instantbird in https://bugzilla.instantbird.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1672

This change was port as part of bug 799068

Checked in as https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/c828b03dc54f

Comment 2

[Florian Quèze [:florian]]

Fixed for Thunderbird 17 (in bug 799068):
https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/comm-beta/rev/e62841058776