Twitter character counter should account for Twitter automatic link shortening.

[dhilowitz]

There's an easy way to implement this as Twitter offer a javascript library for counting characters: https://github.com/twitter/twitter-text/tree/master/js

*Remaining character count example&

var tweet = "This is a test tweet":
var remainingCharacters = 140 - twttr.txt.getTweetLength(tweet);

getTweetLength returns the computed length of a tweet after taking into consideration t.co URL shortening and non UTF-16 characters

[julien-c]

Good idea. Care to try and have a shot at implementing it?

Otherwise I'll try and do it.

[potomak]

I'd like to work on this feature if help is needed.

[dhilowitz]

Go for it! I probably won't have any free time for a month or two. :(

On Apr 2, 2015, at 5:59 PM, Giovanni Cappellotto notifications@github.com wrote:

I'd like to work on this feature if help is needed.

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[julien-c]

Closed by #58. Hat tip @potomak :)

[potomak]

@julien-c I think this could be closed now, my update seems to work.