Twitter 140 character limit break

[Chris White]

It appears that the new twitter share link can be used to break the
140 character limit. Basically in Firefox you can do this:

1) In the URL bar enter http://twitter.com/share?url=Some over 140
character text
2) Hit enter
3) On the page resulting page click "Tweet"
4) View in web and notice the limit broken

I'm not sure if clients can handle this, but it could turn into a
pretty nasty annoyance for users of web if it continues. Might be a
good idea to have it looked at. I'm assuming a simple check to verify
it's a valid URL would suffice.

[Tom van der Woerdt]

Just tested it - yes, you are right.

How clients handle it? Well, very simple, they simply display a t.co URL.

Should be some more checks on the URL though, I agree.

Tom

[Tom van der Woerdt]

One more note,

You can't visit a page that has a long link on it.

@barthoekstra and I (@tvdw) just tested this - I posted 5 paragraphs of
the well-known lorem ipsum (don't worry, deleted after a few seconds)
but his timeline started saying "Something is technically wrong". I
removed my tweet and it was fine again. He then posted an url as well
but now he can't remove it anymore. I am assuming that all his ~1500
followers can't use the timeline anymore at the moment.

Proof:
http://twitter.com/barthoekstra

Tom

[Zac Bowling]

Yay! Robots! Genuine bug and not a scaling issue.

Zac

[John Adams]

I filed a bug with our webclient team. Thanks for finding this.

-john