Cannot post tweet with a link

[reliq]

Not sure what is happening. No matter the length of the url or tweet message itself, it results in error 186 : Status is over 140 characters.

public function tweet($message = null) 
    {   
        $message    = ($message) ? $message : 'Check out '. Str::limit($this->title, 10, '...') .'!';
        $status     = $message. ' '. URL::route('project', urlencode($this->title));
        $status     = Twitter::linkify($status);

        return Twitter::postTweet(
            array(
                'status' => $status,
                'format' => 'json'
            )
        );
    }

What am I doing wrong?

[thujohn]

The linkify method is for output only.
It replaces @user by a link...

You need to check the length of $status before posting.

[reliq]

OK. I tried it. It just posts the url as text though.

[thujohn]

What I do is simple :

$status = 'My status';
$status = substr($tweet, 0, 119).' '.$url;
Twitter::postTweet(['status' => $status]);

[reliq]

Okay. I'll give that a try.

[reliq]

Thanks. It works now.

[reliq]

Hey Akash, I following the suggestion from Thujohn; ``` $status = 'My status';$status = substr($tweet, 0, 119).' '.$url;Twitter::postTweet(['status' => $status]); ``` i.e. setting a suitable limit for the string

[actuallyakash]

Thanks for your reply.

It's working. I was sending the localhost virtual URL which doesn't work on Twitter. Replaced it with the remote URL and everything's working and Great library indeed.

[reliq]

No worries. Happens to the best of us!