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Twita@talinkahashify your tweets

Well hello everyone. I had previously tweeted about this a few weeks ago... but sometimes I forget more folks follow this blog than my Twitter. If any of you use our Twitter API to embed your latest statuses on your website, here is a simple little script that will do a few niceties for you. This includes linkafying, hashtagifying, and of course the most important, atify (aka: "at replies"). check out the source, and use it as such:

tweet code

ify.clean('your tweet text');

Thus making transforming a tweet such as the following:

Before and After

Bfore

Hey @ded. You should #stfu! and use http://canon.com #rant. 

kthxbye @erin http://www.google.com/search?q=canon+rules



After

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

You should #<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23stfu">stfu</a>!

and use <a href="http://canon.com">http://canon.com</a> 

#<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23rant">rant</a>.

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

<a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=canon rules">

http://www.google.com/se...</a>

Download: source | minified