A while back, I’d looked at a couple of plugins to automate the announcing of new blog posts on Twitter, but hadn’t really found one that I liked. Today, I found myself playing with really short (one-character) IDNs, which led to thinking about URL shortening, which led to YOURLS, which led back to WordPress and using Twitter to announce new posts (YOURLS plugin).
So, I’m posting this partly to spread the word and partly to see if the existence of this post will be successfully tweeted complete with short URL.
(NOTE: while YOURLS itself supported the IDN seamlessly, its WordPress plugin seemed to choke silently when pointed at the unicode form of the IDN for the YOURLS API and needed the punycode version to make it work.)
