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Publishing to Twitter

August 12, 2010 7:20pm

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  • #1 / Aug 12, 2010 7:20pm

    C.A.

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    I was wondering if any of you have experiencing publishing your entries to Twitter similar to what is done with 538 and Daring Fireball. I’ve looked into a couple of extensions, but I always end up with this problem:

    There is no way to format the entry titles; the tweets do not reformat the quotes and dashes to the ldquo and mdash entities, etc. If I had a way to get SmartyPants to render it, I would still have a problem with dashes, as EE renders two keyboard dashes, ‑‑, (hyphens) as an en-dash (–), whereas SmartyPants renders it as an em-dash (—) , which is the proper way to do it.

    In other words, I end up with a title formatted as "Lorem Ipsum"‑‑Dolor Sic Amet, when it should be “Lorem Ipsum”—Dolor Sic Amet. Were SmartyPants to parse it, I would get an en-dash (–) instead of the em-dash (—).

    Has anyone found a tweet extension for EE that addresses all these concerns?

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