id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,resolution,keywords,cc,irc_client,os,os_version 855,[Twitter] count URLs as $short_url_length,ilf ,,"Twitter is forcing their t.co URL Wrapper in everything now. Currently, Tweet length is counted as the amount of characters. Since Twitter will change URLs to t.co URLs, URLs shouldn't be counted in their original form, but by the value of ""short_url_length"" in help/configuration, which is currently 19. https://dev.twitter.com/docs/tco-link-wrapper/faq#How_do_I_calculate_if_a_Tweet_with_a_link_is_going_to_be_over_140_characters_or_not Example: Posting this from Twitter: ""This ChangeLog mostly lists changes relevant to users. A full log can be found in the bzr commit logs: http://bugs.bitlbee.org/bitlbee/browser/devel/doc/CHANGES"" results in the error: ""twitter - Error: Maximum message length exceeded: 160 > 140"" Since the URL will be shortened, the actual character count is 123.",defect,closed,normal,,Twitter,3.0.3,fixed,,,Client-independent,Public server,