806224 - tweets which contain URLs (and are over 140 characters) are not sent

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: Instant Messaging, defect)

Description

[Anand Kumria]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Firefox/17.0
Build ID: 20121023124120

Steps to reproduce:

Attempted to send a tweet with more than 140 characters.


Actual results:

I was told: "Status is over 140 characters."


Expected results:

The tweet should have been sent.

I was able to send the tweet using the twitter web client.

https://twitter.com/akumria/status/262636094561058816

The actual text submitted was: "Random Halloween evening last night. Stumbled onto a film set (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1205537/) with Kenneth Branagh, shooting in a fictional Russia."

According to the twitter API docs and FAQ, link shortening occurs automatically at Twitter's end.

https://dev.twitter.com/docs/tco-link-wrapper/faq

https://dev.twitter.com/discussions/1062

Comment 1

[Patrick Cloke [:clokep]]

See also: https://bugzilla.instantbird.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1050

Comment 2

[Patrick Cloke [:clokep]]

Bug 1445778 removed support for Twitter.