(Credit: Jason Cipriani/CNET)
A while back Twitter announced that any URLs being shortened by its t.co service were going to cost users two extra characters. When you only have a 140 characters to begin with, the extra characters could be disastrous when trying to get your point across in a tweet.
It seems Apple didn't take the change into account with its integration of Twitter in OS X Mountain Lion. I discovered this when attempting to tweet a link from Safari. According to the tweet sheet, I had composed a perfect tweet, using up my entire 140-character allotment.
(Credit: Screenshot by Jason Cipriani/CNET)
But every time I clicked send, I'd get the above message. I knew Twitter wasn't down, as I was able to access it just fine via Tweetbot. So I copied the text of the tweet from Safari into Tweetbot and manually entered the URL. It was then that I realized the problem; according to Tweetbot I was two characters over the limit.
On the left, the same text and URL are entered on Twitter.com, showing the tweet is two-characters over the limit. On the right, OS X's tweet sheet shows identical text being exact... [Read more]
by Jason Cipriani via CNET How To
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