Twitter tweet length isn't checked

[jace]

Twitter tweet length isn't checked

[kracekumar]

https://jobs.hasgeek.com/new headline accepts only 100 characters. So the Issue is no longer exists.

[jace]

If there is a domain in the headline (like hasgeek.com), Twitter tries to turn that into a link and wraps it with t.co. The final tweet length is based on this. Therefore the whole length may still exceed 140 despite the 100 character limit on headlines.

[jace]

@kracekumar Don't close issues without knowing whether it's fixed or not. This issue was opened a whole year after the 100 character limit was set, so it's not clearly not fixed by the 100 character limit.

[kracekumar]

@jace correct, point noted.

[iamsudip]

@jace The issue is still open so, Can I work on this?

[jace]

Yes. See if Twitter has an API to check. The length of t.co URLs will change with time.

[iamsudip]

@jace According to this doc
GET req to this url: https://api.twitter.com/1.1/help/configuration.json will send us the required info for
max t.co link length now which changes time to time now it is 22 for http and 23 for https.

[miteshashar]

Thats the max, any way we can get the exact length?

[iamsudip]

@miteshashar I couldn't find it yet but if we set the max character considering max t.co length for all urls it will not be a problem then. Yes, but in few cases there will be characters remaining but we will not be able to use it.

[miteshashar]

Yes, that is my concern. 140 characters are way too short to compromise on. Every available character starts carrying more value.