Posts tagged Twitter
URL shortening too long? j.mp is the answer
Aug 28th
First of all, what’ an URL Shortening service? URL shortening is a technique used very much lately on the World Wide Web allowing people to create a very short URL and make a web page available on it, in addition to the original address. For example, the page http://www.radupoenaru.com/handle-xml-with-namespaces/ has a length of 54 characters and resulted in the following TinyURL which has a length of 25 characters: http://tinyurl.com/mpjxqb .Half the size, same page pointing to!
But hey! Twitter allows only 140 characters – Need to save two characters in a tweet? You either have to use the SMS language – rework your wording by changing “people” to “ppl” or “for” to “4” for example, or, if you want to include a link, you can use a shorter URL. The natural evolution of shortening websites also followed the shrinking idea : Starting with tinyurl.com who had on its own 11 characters, going to bit.ly 6 characters( only half!!!) and finishing with the newest addition, making URLs look like they were getting just a little too long, when Bit.ly introduced j.mp –only 4 characters wasted.
Tweet your ideas through JavaScript
May 4th
Do you have a website and would like to post your tweets from it ? Or maybe you want to create a widget that posts weather on your twitter account?
I encountered this situation and overcome it with the following script. It is pretty simple, but beware that JavaScript is run on CLIENT side, thus any code must be sent in clear.Since it is needed that you provide a password for your account, would not be so wise to put it in clear.
NOTE: I use it for a Vista sidebar gadget, so only IE code is below. For FireFox or Opera the modifications are trivial. More >
