How can I use Google shortening service (http://goo.gl) in Twitter for iPhone?

Question

I tried to configure Google service as custom URL shortening service by adding this url http://goo.gl but it's not working.

Any idea ?

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the-kenny · Answer 1 · 2010-12-08 18:41:50Z

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You need to add a wildcard to the URL to tell the application where to insert the original URL. Your custom url should look like this:

http://myshortener.com/shorten?url=%@

However, it looks like this isn't as simple as this on goo.gl. I'll update when I find a way without any proxy-site or other things.

answered Dec 8 '10 at 18:41

the-kenny
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	I tried that route, by adding it at the end of the google URL, but it's giving some error. – garikapati Dec 9 '10 at 15:44
	Yup, because Google doesn't accept the ?url=%@ argument. I haven't found a way to use it. – the-kenny Dec 9 '10 at 15:57

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