Twitter Doesn't Like Odd Characters
A quick post today...
Last night I sent a text message to Twitter. Something like this:
"Picking up all the cliche valentines day gifts for my wife."
My phone (a Mogul) automatically put an accent on the e of "cliche", (which was the correct thing to do). I sent the message and didn't think anything of it.
Today my friend (and co-host of Whats Up with Tech -- which we'll get back to soon hopefully), Tim Fisher (@TimFisher), asked me, "What was up with that post from last night?" Then he showed me how the message was delivered to him from Twitter:
@P@i@c@k@i@n@g@ @u@p@ @a@l@l@ @t@h@e@ @c@l@i@c@h@?@ @v@a
It was the same way on the Twitter web site. Uuhhh, what?
The only thing I can figure is that Twitter couldn't deal with the accent on that e. Between the @ symbols in the messed up post you can see that all the original characters are there up until the accented e which is replaced by a question mark.
So when Twittering, if your phone automatically changes standard English alphabetic characters to ones with accents, tildes, umlauts, or that backwards "c" thing under the c in Francais, and the like, you might want to undo that before sending it on to Twitter.
