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[ragtek]

My Thread Title is:

Already > 15 Add-ons available here

As i wanted to tweet this, the twitter window showed:
Already > 15 Add-ons available here http://t.co/Mh3Al5x via @ragtek

> was escaped to >

 

[Mike]

I think that's a Twitter bug. Here's the HTML:

                <div class="tweet shareControl">

                    <a href="http://twitter.com/share" class="twitter-share-button"
                        data-count="horizontal"
                        data-lang="en"
                        data-url="http://ragtek.org/xenforo/threads/already-15-add-ons-available-here.138/"
                        data-text="Already &gt; 15 Add-ons available here"
                        data-via="ragtek"
                        >Tweet</a>
                </div>

You can see that the data-text is an attribute, so as such we have to escape entities to be valid/safe. > in an attribute is a >. It looks like Twitter's code isn't doing that unescaping.

 

[Vincent]

Feel free to report at Twitter
http://support.twitter.com/forms