We hear those new-fangled iPhone thingies are pretty cool and a lot of the kids today are using them for the Twitter with an app called Tweetie 2. Since the nice folks over at atebits were kind enough to add a custom URL shortening feature to Tweetie 2, we made an awe.sm API endpoint to work with it (and any other Twitter client that supports a similarly standardized URL shortening API call). Here’s how to use it.
1) In the Tweetie Settings, select Custom URL Shortener and you’ll get a screen like this:
2) Enter the following string replacing ‘{YOUR API KEY}’ with your awe.sm API Key (if you don’t have an awe.sm API Key yet, we appreciate your continued patience):
http://create.awe.sm/tweet?create_type=tweetie&api_key={YOUR API KEY}&target=%@
3) When writing your tweets, enter the Compose Menu and click the Shrink URLs button as seen here:
This will create awe.sm-powered URLs using whatever custom domain you have as your account default with the channel (share_type) ‘twitter’ and tool (create_type) ‘tweetie’.
If you’re a developer interested in integrating awe.sm support into your app, please check out our API documentation and feel free to drop us a line at developers [at] awe.sm.
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. It is such a notable feature that a bunch of people asked us if we could do it using domains other than http://awe.sm, which we can. In fact, we’re already powering URL shorteners for some of the above mentioned partners including TechCrunch (
