<div dir="ltr">I see. So I guess they have some 'within reason' limit on the length of a url they will show in-line.  Makes sense.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 9:58 AM, 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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<a href="http://does_that_mean_you.can.get.around/the-140-character_limit_by_pretending_your_content_is_actually_a_url" target="_blank">http://does_that_mean_you.can.<u></u>get.around/the-140-character_<u></u>limit_by_pretending_your_<u></u>content_is_actually_a_url</a>?<br>


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Sort of. I just tried this<br>
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just trying this<br>
<a href="http://does_that_mean_you.can.get.around.com/the-140-character_limit_by_pretending_your_content_is_actually_a_url+or+not+because+i+gotta+say+i+don't+really+lnow+this+i+guess+you+prolly+can+and+wow+this+is+one+long+Tweet+but+it+still+says+i+have+99+chars+left" target="_blank">http://does_that_mean_you.can.<u></u>get.around.com/the-140-<u></u>character_limit_by_pretending_<u></u>your_content_is_actually_a_<u></u>url+or+not+because+i+gotta+<u></u>say+i+don't+really+lnow+this+<u></u>i+guess+you+prolly+can+and+<u></u>wow+this+is+one+long+Tweet+<u></u>but+it+still+says+i+have+99+<u></u>chars+left</a>?<br>


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and it said i still had 99 chars left. But when you post it, the link will show up as something like <a href="http://t.co/stuff" target="_blank">t.co/stuff</a> so to read the message, people will have to click the link anyway... and at that point you might as well just link to a regular webpage with your text.<br>


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