i know most people hate twitter, but i do know that qntmfred is on twitter sometimes, so he may be open to hearing me out on a suggestion

when people on here type a twitter name like "@whatever", maybe it can autolink to "http://twitter.com/whatever" but just make the name a link, not add all the http stuff, so it would become @whatever

since the awwwwww usually adds the link, it seems like it might be an easy thing to do?

just make sure that it has to have a character other than a space after the @ character, so false links werent created

but i do acknowledge that there could be an issue when people use the @ like "hey im going to go eat @4pm" ... the coding would make that a link to a site, which obviously wouldnt be wanted


just a thought, flame on twitter haters, or idea-shooter-downers

4/5/2011 11:50:59 PM

Oh, I'd like to eat the chicken I see...

4/6/2011 12:00:38 AM

[Edited on April 6, 2011 at 4:50 AM. Reason : ]

4/6/2011 4:50:15 AM

@[no]

4/6/2011 6:49:05 AM

this is stupid.

4/11/2011 10:25:31 AM

actually, it makes a ton of sense


the @person shit got a lot of run this year in sports talk

4/11/2011 10:59:57 AM

this seems like a pretty good idea

4/11/2011 2:37:04 PM

good ideer

4/12/2011 9:08:16 PM

what if someone is giving out their email address and it ends in "@gmail.com" or something? maybe I just don't understand because I don't tweet or twat or whatever it's called.

4/13/2011 11:00:29 AM

As long as they don't type

smath74 (space) @boybuttlovin.com

It wouldn't be a problem

4/13/2011 11:23:43 AM

i guess new tags could be made, too

like just put it in [twit]@twitterguy[/twit]

figured it would be harder to add new buttons, but they dont have to be buttons, kinda like how works

4/14/2011 8:29:26 AM

hmm


no need for buttons


http://dev.twitter.com/anywhere

4/28/2011 11:45:32 AM

@MLB

[Edited on April 30, 2011 at 9:31 PM. Reason : Buy premium, use HTML, ..., profit]

4/30/2011 9:31:04 PM

that is too much effort, of course we can do that

4/30/2011 10:40:30 PM

I mean its no button click, but for the limited use it isn't that hard. I guess I haven't really seen the demand for a dedicated button, but I don't spend too much time in sports talk.

5/1/2011 1:37:49 AM

what i was requesting wouldn't even require a button click

the point of the thread was to just be able to tape @something and it turn into the link automatically

like typing a URL [used to/maybe still does] already do

you can't argue that typing out

<.a href="http://twitter.com/somebody">@somebody<./a>

5/1/2011 11:44:48 AM

^^ this solution is provided by the link I posted earlier. no need to press a button, bro.

[Edited on May 2, 2011 at 1:36 PM. Reason : javascript traverses the DOM and finds that shit on its own]

5/2/2011 1:35:35 PM