Re: [twitter-dev] Auto Populating Tweets Broken?

[Arnaud Meunier]

Hey Yahel,

Meet Web Intents: http://dev.twitter.com/pages/intents (take a look on the "intent/tweet" intent). It really is super easy to implement. For example: http://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=foobar

Arnaud / @rno

On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 1:18 PM, Yahel Carmon <yah...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hey,

We've just noticed that auto-populating tweets using http://twitter.com/home/?status=foobar no longer works. 

Has this feature been totally removed, or is this a temporary glitch? (Perversely, http://twitter.com/?status=foobar works, but that was the older method that broke last year and we were told to add /home to fix it.)

I know we're supposed to move to the official Tweet button, but we have a very large scale CRM that still relies on the old method. 

Please let me know ASAP, as we have a lot of broken tweet links in the wild.

Thanks,

Yahel

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[omegdadi]

Hey There,

+1. This issue is affecting all of our products at the moment. I can't
find any notification anywhere about this being deprecated today.
Please restore this functionality. And allow us some time to migrate
w/ a date in mind. If it's no longer going to be supported, we need to
know sooner as we have clients waiting for an answer at the moment. We
would like to use intents, but we need a full page to send the user to
since we can't always open a popup window (ie from Flash.) and that
page doesn't look good in a full browser tab.

Thanks,
Omar

On May 17, 3:05 pm, Arnaud Meunier <arn...@twitter.com> wrote:
> Hey Yahel,
>

> Meet Web Intents:http://dev.twitter.com/pages/intents(take a look on the

> "intent/tweet" intent). It really is super easy to implement. For example:http://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=foobar
>

> Arnaud / @rno <http://twitter.com/rno>

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> On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 1:18 PM, Yahel Carmon <yah...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hey,
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> > We've just noticed that auto-populating tweets using

> >http://twitter.com/home/?status=foobarno longer works.

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> > Has this feature been totally removed, or is this a temporary glitch?

> > (Perversely,http://twitter.com/?status=foobarworks, but that was the

[Taylor Singletary]

Hi Omar,

Sorry for the confusion -- we recommend Web Intents as we've developed the Tweet Intent specifically for this purpose -- let us know what tweaks you think the display needs to "look good" in a full browser tab. Intents are optimized to load quickly and service the user's intent as efficiently as possible -- the old way requires a more significant load time and invites the user to engage in all kinds of other fun Twitter activity aside from tweeting -- maybe they'll even forget why you sent them there in the first place.

This is a bug and while I don't have an ETA on when it will be fixed, it was not intentional and this old hack has not been deprecated.

@episod - Taylor Singletary

[Jonathan Strauss]

I'm totally with you guys on the value of switching to web intents,
and we recommend all our customers doing new implementations use them.
However, there are just too many legacy implementations against the
"old hack", as Taylor deemed it, for you to expect everyone to switch
over in such a timeframe. For a very long time the /?status= method
was the only way to tweet from a website and web intents are only a
few months old, so I hope you guys don't diminish the priority of
fixing this bug just because you want to force everyone to the new way
of doing things.

-jonathan

On May 18, 7:50 am, Taylor Singletary <taylorsinglet...@twitter.com>
wrote:

> Hi Omar,
>
> Sorry for the confusion -- we recommend Web Intents as we've developed the
> Tweet Intent specifically for this purpose -- let us know what tweaks you
> think the display needs to "look good" in a full browser tab. Intents are
> optimized to load quickly and service the user's intent as efficiently as
> possible -- the old way requires a more significant load time and invites
> the user to engage in all kinds of other fun Twitter activity aside from
> tweeting -- maybe they'll even forget why you sent them there in the first
> place.
>
> This is a bug and while I don't have an ETA on when it will be fixed, it was
> not intentional and this old hack has not been deprecated.
>

> @episod <http://twitter.com/episod> - Taylor Singletary

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> On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 5:34 PM, omegdadi <omegd...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hey There,
>
> > +1. This issue is affecting all of our products at the moment. I can't
> > find any notification anywhere about this being deprecated today.
> > Please restore this functionality. And allow us some time to migrate
> > w/ a date in mind. If it's no longer going to be supported, we need to
> > know sooner as we have clients waiting for an answer at the moment. We
> > would like to use intents, but we need a full page to send the user to
> > since we can't always open a popup window (ie from Flash.) and that
> > page doesn't look good in a full browser tab.
>
> > Thanks,
> > Omar
>
> > On May 17, 3:05 pm, Arnaud Meunier <arn...@twitter.com> wrote:
> > > Hey Yahel,
>

> > > Meet Web Intents:http://dev.twitter.com/pages/intents(takea look on the

> > > "intent/tweet" intent). It really is super easy to implement. For
> > example:http://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=foobar
>
> > > Arnaud / @rno <http://twitter.com/rno>
>
> > > On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 1:18 PM, Yahel Carmon <yah...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Hey,
>
> > > > We've just noticed that auto-populating tweets using

> > > >http://twitter.com/home/?status=foobarnolonger works.

[Matt Harris]

Hi Jonathan,

This is being investigated by our engineers at the moment. We'll be posting updates to this ticket on our issue tracker:

    http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=1650

Best,
@themattharris
Developer Advocate, Twitter
http://twitter.com/themattharris

[Jonathan Strauss]

Thanks for the clarification and bug link Matt!

I understand how big of a pain supporting this legacy method must be,
especially given the fundamental changes in #newtwitter. I just wanted
to emphasize how many sites still use this and probably aren't in a
position to easily figure out how to fix it.

Thanks,
-jonathan

On May 18, 5:48 pm, Matt Harris <thematthar...@twitter.com> wrote:
> Hi Jonathan,
>
> This is being investigated by our engineers at the moment. We'll be posting
> updates to this ticket on our issue tracker:
>    http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=1650
>
> Best,
> @themattharris

> Developer Advocate, Twitterhttp://twitter.com/themattharris

> > > > > Meet Web Intents:http://dev.twitter.com/pages/intents(takealook on

[Tom van der Woerdt]

Jonathan,

It's only /home?status= that does not currently work, /?status= does
still work. As a quick workaround you could simply use /?status=. Of
course, I'd strongly recommend making the switch to web intents asap.

Tom

[Mohan Arun]

On May 19, 2:25 pm, Tom van der Woerdt <i...@tvdw.eu> wrote:
> Jonathan,
>
> It's only /home?status= that does not currently work, /?status= does
> still work. As a quick workaround you could simply use /?status=. Of
> course, I'd strongly recommend making the switch to web intents asap.
>

If you are making this change you might as well make the change to use
web intents:
Example:
http://twitter.com/intent/tweet?status=My%20new%20super-awesome%20status
Read more about this: http://dev.twitter.com/pages/intents

By the way I just came across today, what looks to me like a bug
given twitter's idealogical stress behind 'intent-based process flow'.

I came across a twitter bio page which I wanted to follow and I wasnt
logged in to twitter
and I just clicked 'Follow' and it opened the login box as expected
but after I did login
it returned me to the same page. My original intent of clicking on
the 'follow' button was incomplete and I had to click on 'Follow'
again.

=- Mohan -=
http://www.mohanarun.com

[Tom van der Woerdt]

True, but I've seen some people saying that they want a normal Twitter
page, not an intent. Like I said, I really recommend using intents
instead, but the option is still there.

Tom