Follow original shortened URLs, not expanded URLs
When you get a message with a short URL in Socialite, I like that it will attempt to auto-expand the URL. But if the link goes to something with a login, the expanded URL won't always be correct.
A perfect example is Facebook URLs. A link to a photo album on Facebook would work fine if I clicked on the original shortened URLs thanks to cookies. However, Socialite doesn't have access to, or doesn't use, the cookies. So the expanded URL is shown as http://www.facebook.com/login.php, which essentially breaks the link.
I have to double click on the status to open it on Twitter.com in order to follow the link. So, while the auto-exapanded URLs are nice, it would be better the link followed the original shortened URL instead of the expanded URL.
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Support Staff 2 Posted by Nik Fletcher on 29 Dec, 2009 04:09 PM
Hi Andy
Thanks for your message. I've noted this for us to look into for a future update.
Please let me know if I can be of any further assistance.
Kind regards,
Nik
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Luke Hefson closed this discussion on 08 Jan, 2010 02:30 PM.