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<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Adam D. Ruppe <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:destructionator@gmail.com" target="_blank">destructionator@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>

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detect URLs and not count them towards the total msg length, or<br>
something else?<br>
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This is basically it. When you post a link to twitter, they detect the url and rewrite it into <a href="http://t.co/whatever" target="_blank">t.co/whatever</a> shortlink on their end. Then that is used in the message and counts toward the length instead of the original full link.<br>


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