Posting Links bugged

I have url shortening using ping.fm on by default and I haven't had any problems before, until today. I wanted to use the * prefix to disable url shortening but it completely messed up my post.

posted:

Ever felt like slapping someone with a google search, http://gog.is would be the app for you then! *http://gog.is/wiki:tweets

became:

Ever felt like slapping someone with a google search, http://gog.is would be the app for you then! *http://gog.is/wiki:tweets/wiki:tweets

expected:

Ever felt like slapping someone with a google search, http://gog.is would be the app for you then! http://gog.is/wiki:tweets