FishTwits Blog

10-20-09

Site Update: Long tweet handling, bigger art

I had been intending to bring you the ability to purchase Savlen Studio’s paintings directly from the FishTwits site in today’s update, but we stumbled across some problems caused by a change in Twitter’s handling of rejected tweets last week and dealing with these changes held up the work on payment integration. Hopefully, there won’t be any further delays to prevent that from going in next week.

The main cause of rejected tweets was text that didn’t fit within the 140-character limit, so that has now been addressed quite thoroughly: Any tweet made through FishTwits which is longer than 140 characters will now be cut down to size with the excess text added as a comment on the tweet – you can type in as much as you need to describe your catch and it will all be saved, even if it doesn’t fit within Twitter’s length limits. A link to the detail page for your tweet will also be inserted when this is done, so that anyone who sees the shortened tweet will be able to click through to view it in full on the FishTwits site.

On the original intended enhancements for this week’s update, although I didn’t get to the point of allowing Savlen’s artwork to be purchased through FishTwits, I was able to provide a larger view of each photo which you can view by clicking the image in the sidebar. This page will also be the one from which you will be able to make the purchase when that is implemented.