Recently I’ve been non-stop with JSONP, I love and hate it! (to find out why, see my last post!)
Anyway, David Walsh recently posted a new How-to tip on his site: "Create a TinyURL with PHP" – His tutorial taps into the TinyURL API to retrieve the shortened URL which you can then display on a page.
For those that don’t want to get their hands dirty with PHP there is a very simple way to do it with just JavaScript, Ajax is not needed!
I’m one of the few people on this planet still using the Twitter web interface. I just cannot be bothered with any of those Adobe Air clients, they seem too intrusive. Twitter isn’t so great that it deserves it’s own process in Windows (sorry Twitter!). Plus, if I was using a client I’d feel like I’d have to tweet about every tiny insignificant thing that happens, which, although it is the point in twitter, would be a massive waste of time!
There are a few things which annoy me about the web interface though. The worst thing by far is that it’s very slow and sometimes just doesn’t work. There are also some posting issues; if I have a really long link which I want to share, it won’t let me press the "update" button (because my tweet is now over 140 characters) – but I know that Twitter will convert the URL to a tinyurl which will surely result in a tweet shorter than 140 characters but Twitter still insists on disallowing this action!
I got really tired of this, twitter wouldn’t let me tweet even though shortened versions of posted URLs would fit into the 140 character limit quite nicely! Out of desperation I decided to create a cool little GreaseMonkey script which solves this problem.
You can install the script here – (Sorry, it’s Firefox only, duh!)
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