Justin's dashboard

Twitter still doesn't recognize the '...', but I found out recently that Mac users can insert the ellipsis character (...) by pressing Command-; - it's the equivalent of Alt-0133. It will show the character, although I still think the expected behavior should be to show the ... as people would normally type them. – Justin, on March 01, 2009 04:00

Both are very helpful (and ingenious) suggestions that technically solve the problem, but I don't think average users will have the know-how to do that. Ultimately, I think it's a bug that needs to be fixed for the general use case.

Thanks for the suggestions, though... I'll remember them for the future!

This happens to me as well, and it seems to be a pretty consistent bug with at least quotes, ampersands, greater thans, and less thans (the basic HTML entities crowd). I can understand the issue, but Twitter should really compensate for the characters in the character count; most non-techy users probably wouldn't have a clue why there's an error displayed when some tweets under 140 chars are entered. Hopefully it's fixed soon! (I e-mailed Twitter support about it last month but I haven't heard back.)