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URL shortener problems
Posts to Ping.FM should just use Ping.FM's built in URL shortener. Otherwise URLs get shortened twice... Better yet, there should be an option to *not* shorten the URL.
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Inappropriate?Strange, in my testing, and looking at twitterfeed users who do use ping.fm, the shortened links were always passed "as is" and not re-shortened by ping.fm. Which shortener do you use, and do you have an example post where I can see this, so I can try and take a closer look?2 Comments
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This is one of the best points
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I've been using TinyURL, mostly because it doesn't require any other information (username/password, API key, etc...) as I don't really care about tracking my links.
http://twitter.com/mattack/status/193... Is my latest tweet from tweetburner. If you go to http://tinyurl.com/preview.php to enable their preview feature, then go to my tweet and click the Ping.fm link you'll get TinyURL's preview of my post... -
OK, let me check with ping.fm - because many users use URL shorteners that come with stats and analytics, I wanted to keep whatever shortener they use, rather than shortening through ping.fm. It seems to work for most (as far as I can see), so am not sure why yours are being re-shortened.
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Inappropriate?Looks like I can disable link shortening on the Ping.fm side, but this is not ideal. I use Ping.fm to post from XMPP and other sources and would like it to shorten links...
I think the option to not shorten the URL in Twitterfeed would be best.
Oh, and thanks for your help. : ) -
Inappropriate?my ping.fm do not shorten the already shorten links.
but.
i use ping.fm to also post to delicious.
that cause my delicious links get shorten. imho, that's not good.
so i really like to have options to not shorten the links.
tnx.
I’m thankful
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Inappropriate?I too would like to be able to disable the url shortener. Is that something we can expect as a new feature?
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