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Twitter - Disable auto links in tweets #

Having set up IFTTT to autopost blog updates on a recovered Twitter handle, I did my best to forget all about it.

However, I recently discovered that Twitter automatically inserts hyperlinks for text that matches certain patterns (e.g., "Mail.app" becomes a link to said domain), prompting me to go back and delete such tweets, namely:

• Contacts.app: Batch add existing contacts to group via text file and AppleScript
• Archiving Calendar.app events as plain text
• Very slow copying LibreOffice.app from dmg to /Applications
• Migrating from Mail.app to Thunderbird
• Photos.app: "Nothing to import - None of these files can be imported into your Photos library."
• Mail.app: Cannot remove attachments from sent emails

I was able to delete today's earlier tweet (Mojave - Where did DVD Player.app go?) and repost it with the hyperlink disabled (why can tweets not be edited?) by inserting a zero width space after the dot as explained by Amit Agarwal.

See also:

• Twitter-Hack: Perfekter Hashtag dank Zero Width Space
• How can I type U+200B character?
• How to type zero-width space character (U+200B) on a laptop keyboard?
• Zero-Width Characters: Invisibly fingerprinting text, the followup piece Text Fingerprinting Update, and discussion on HN.
• A bit tangentially: SNOW (Steganographic Nature Of Whitespace)

/misc | Oct 23, 2018

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