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Why are my tweets truncated at 130 characters?
I'm writing 140 character tweets, but they are getting cut off at 130 characters, followed by ellipses. Help?
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Inappropriate?It would help in answering your question if you could provide an example of a truncated tweet, and your Twitter username.
The usual reason for a tweet to be truncated in the way you describe is that it contains certain special characters that are internally represented by more than the usual 1 byte per character.1 Comment
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Thanks for the response, Eridanus. That's an interesting point on the internal length of special characters. Here are links to 2 different tweets with the issue:
1. http://twitter.com/bhc3/status/103869...
2. http://twitter.com/bhc3/status/103843...
Special characters issue?
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John - four characters in my Twitter handle. @bhc3
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Inappropriate?Tweet No. 1:
Reading: Confluence 2.10 - Just in time for the Holidays http://bit.ly/L45rs >> Cool widget connectors (Flickr, SlideShare, YouTub ......
Tweet No. 2:
Love this post by Atlassian's @barconati Connectbeam Connects | Confluence Customers Beam http://bit.ly/5VhY >> why E2.0 integrati ......
In both cases, the > is the special character, which is represented as a so-called HTML entity:
> is represented internally as & gt ;
< is represented internally as & lt ; (but without the spaces)
(I had to include spaces in the entities to prevent Get satisfaction "obligingly" converting them into the characters).
So >> looks like 2 characters, but actually requires as much space as 8 normal ones (i.e. 6 more characters than you'd expect).
And then Twitter wastes a few characters for the ellipses .....! - making up the usual 140.
I’m hoping this helps...
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Thanks! That's great to know, and I will be more conscious of those >> going forward.
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I blogged about this, gave you a big shout-out for this one Eridanus: http://bit.ly/spnm Thanks again.
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Wow! I don't often get blogged about, as far as I know. Thanks for the link :)
