12.3. "Post to Twitter" Link
Your next task is just for fun: it adds a "Post to Twitter" link to the bottom of each blog entry. When clicked, this link takes a user to her Twitter[] home page and fills out her status field automatically with the title of the blog and a URL.
You use a shortened URL here because Twitter has a 140 character limit for status updates, and blog URLs have a tendency to be fairly long. To shorten your blog's URLs, you use the shortening service, http://bit.ly.
NOTE
Twitter is a social networking site that pioneered the concept of "micro-blogging," or status updates limited to 140 characters. As I write this, Twitter is one of the most popular and fastest-growing services on the web.
12.3.1. Creating ...
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