Tuesday, 31 January 2012

Prevent Twitter Auto Convert of Words to Hyperlinks

Clickable Link Text Twitter


Have ever tried using a word as a link in Twitter? Imagine you want to tweet with a website in your tweet, such as twitter.com, usually Twitter automatically converts this link into a t.co format and hence your tweet may not make much sense to your followers.There is a way to prevent this from happening on Twitter, all you need to do is add the ASCII equivalent of the (dot) or the period command instead of using the symbol itself.This is a pretty basic trick that any one can use.ASCII equivalent of (dot) is (.).

Here is an example -
Is this Twitter(.) ? This will show a Clickable Link Text.

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Gautham A S is a personal tech columnist and blogging expert at TechGau.Org, one of the leading Tech, How-To and Blogging Tips blogs