Testing tinyurl.com on Twitter updates

January 9, 2009 D. H. McKee

I’m tinkering with my MT-Twitter plugin. If this works, it should create a Twitter update with a tinyurl instead of a longer zuckervati.com url. In MT 4.x, the MT-Twitter plugin should automatically do this if the URL is longer than 30 characters, but:
a) I’m not using MT 4.x (although I’ve downloaded and am testing the open source MT 4.x)
b) I want this to shrink all the URLs to tiny format
Hopefully this will work, otherwise I’ll either have no Twitter update or something very crazy-looking.

One Response to “Testing tinyurl.com on Twitter updates”

dmckee
15 years ago

Yup, it works fine. Well that was easy…
http://tinyurl.com/a4k3lm

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As a guy who occasionally curates art shows and wrangles artists together, I often have to edit and post artist bios, profile pictures, and artwork images. This can be a problem, since many artists and writers aren’t used to selling themselves. Artists rarely know how to present their art for display in a brochure, and writers aren’t used to writing about themselves.

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Like blogs of old, this one is a personal document of the comings and goings of me. Articles I’ve written, links I’ve posted, videos I liked, etc. Here, a first-person perspective is the way to go, at least for now. So, this is my site. I’m D. H. McKee, a sometimes artist, sometimes writer. Mostly just a guy on the internet.