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A comment on the question "What characters make Twitter messages truncate?" in Twitter:

Very eloquent! – beiju, on September 24, 2008 22:53

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A comment on the question "What characters make Twitter messages truncate?" in Twitter:

more sample posts:

http://twitter.com/fearphage/statuses...
http://twitter.com/fearphage/statuses...
http://twitter.com/fearphage/statuses...
http://twitter.com/fearphage/statuses... – fearphage, on September 24, 2008 15:24

missy replied on September 24, 2008 14:52 to the question "What characters make Twitter messages truncate?" in Twitter:

My bio has quotes in it, and twitter changed one " to "
Ridiculous! Also, as of last night, any tweets I have that include quote marks get truncated. VERY frustrating. I think it's a bug. Worse, everyone at twitter appears asleep at the wheel.

Evan @ev on twitter isn't responding, and neither is @biz, nor are any of the developers that are on this project: @rael, @mrtall, @vlourenco or @bs . It is as though twitter is asleep at the wheel.

A search on twitter at search.twitter.com for @twitter reveals many upset people. If they do not start their complaint with @twitter, if they put @twitter in the middle, @twitter won't see it.

I tweet many quoted passages, and I can't do that until twitter is fixed. Are you listening, twitter? Your "front-end" fix which as Evan said wasn't supposed to do anything, has messed up everything.

To quote the Twitter blog, "The scope of this project was limited to light-weight front-end work." That is *not* what has happened. This is a major problem and Twitter appears to be ignoring it.

bsiegel replied on September 24, 2008 14:35 to the question "What characters make Twitter messages truncate?" in Twitter:

Don't forget ampersand (&), that seems to do it too. In fact, every character on this list will probably cause the issue: HTML Latin-1 Entities.

Violet replied on September 24, 2008 11:10 to the problem "Conversion of characters to HTML entities is ruining tweet display" in Twitter:

Hating the truncation. A character should be a character should be a character, the way it was before the recent "upgrade." This is a step backward, not forward.

Violet replied on September 24, 2008 11:03 to the question "What characters make Twitter messages truncate?" in Twitter:

This has been happening to me constantly, and it's making me crazy. It's frustrating because I'm just writing my updates as I always have, using characters I've used in the past with no trouble. Now that my tweets are truncating, not only is it hard for me to tell why, but there's no warning that anything funky is going to happen until AFTER I post and see it's screwed up. What a pain. Do I have to regress to kindergarten-level writing to get around this, limiting myself only to letters and commas and periods? (Oops, that was a question mark; how many characters will one of those set me back? Uh-oh, a semi-colon. Yikes, and hyphens. I'm screwed.)

Joachim Bengtsson started following the question "What characters make Twitter messages truncate?" in Twitter.

Joachim Bengtsson replied on September 24, 2008 07:43 to the problem "Conversion of characters to HTML entities is ruining tweet display" in Twitter:

I don't get it. You already have a 140 char limit. Why the hell would you add a truncate(msg, 140something) to the view when you already know the length of msg will be =<140>s not like some accidental 141 char message would crash the entire list view layout.

Joachim Bengtsson started following the problem "Conversion of characters to HTML entities is ruining tweet display" in Twitter.

syzygy replied on September 22, 2008 19:06 to the problem "Missing Twitters/updates" in Twitter:

I hope you don't mind my bumping this thread, but I was suprised to see a tweet from @trevypoos on my wife's 'home' timeline (since she follows him as well), but not mine! It kinda makes me wonder how many other tweets I've missed...

This is the tweet that never turned up, incidentally:

http://twitter.com/trevypoos/statuses...

It's not a reply.. it's simply not there (nor is it on my m.twitter.com feed)! I'm worried that I'm missing out on (a small percentage of) the fun!

Will replied on September 20, 2008 16:18 to the idea "Can Sandy subscribe to an iCal RSS feed?" in I want Sandy:

I'd like to see this, or an iCal file import feature added into Sandy.

Mark Wilson started following the problem "iCal errors with "Error while refreshing"" in I want Sandy.

Joachim Bengtsson reported a problem in Third Cog Software on August 24, 2008 17:27:

0.1: "New game" doesn't empty the board sometimes

Selecting "New game" sometimes reloads the current game instead of cleaning the game board.

If you get this problem, please tell me if you can think of any special circumstances that might have led to this problem. Thanks!

David the Medium-Sized replied on August 07, 2008 22:14 to the problem ""snooze until next week" changes the event title to "Until"." in I want Sandy:

Rael,

Seems to be working now. Maybe the old code hadn't gotten completely flushed out of the pipes way out here in Arkansas.

David

A comment on the problem ""snooze until next week" changes the event title to "Until"." in I want Sandy:

And... it's fixed (at least in our testing environment). We'll be pushing the fix to Sandy's servers later today. – Rael Dornfest, on August 06, 2008 12:43

A comment on the problem ""snooze until next week" changes the event title to "Until"." in I want Sandy:

That said, I believe I see the bug you're experiencing and will have a chat with Sandy today about it with an eye to having it fixed by the end of the day. In the meantime, as a workaround, you can say "remind me again next week". – Rael Dornfest, on August 06, 2008 11:55

Rael Dornfest replied on August 06, 2008 08:43 to the problem ""snooze until next week" changes the event title to "Until"." in I want Sandy:

Hi David,

Can you please forward one of Sandy's replies to your snooze to help@iwantsandy.com so that I can take a gander at what's happening and help her out?

--Rael

David the Medium-Sized replied on August 05, 2008 14:50 to the problem ""snooze until next week" changes the event title to "Until"." in I want Sandy:

This problem is NOT solved. I'm still having it.

A comment on the question "What are tags for in Tumblr?" in Tumblr:

Just what I needed! Thanks :) (iphone-reviews.tumlr.com) – Joachim Bengtsson, on August 02, 2008 20:14