Twitter is really really rubbish

Twitter has really freaking annoyed me lately, so I came here to rant about it. It was working nicely as a simple place to paste links as a replacement for writing longer news updates. Then shortly after I put a forum link to the Twitter feed to replace the announcements forum, I found it was breaking all the links for users not logged in!

Here's a link I posted to the 0.99.96 build thread on Twitter:

http://www.scirra.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=7533

If you're logged in, it displays correctly. If you're not logged in (a guest) you get this link instead:

http://www.scirra.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=7533

See the & turned in to & and the link no longer works - anyone remotely familiar with the very basics of HTML knows that's an escape code for &. Twitter are processing their escape codes wrong. This is an embarrassingly amateurish mistake which suggests somebody there really hasn't a clue what they're doing.

Then I read Twitter is valued at $1.5bn, and I can't paste a link to the forum on Twitter.

The world is crazy. I don't want to set up another feed; I'll work around it with URL shorteners for now, their support isn't responding.

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So why didn't you use URL reducers in the first place? It's pretty much the accepted norm on Twitter.

Because the URLs usually fit anyway! Why should I take the extra step to shorten it if it fits?

Download TWEETDECK!

You can manage the twitter account much better, and it already shortens your URLs, along with other nice features!

Meh, just add an RSS feed. Its just XML, and that would give a few of us a reason to make a feedreader with Construct.