Weird Trailing Slash at End of Twitter Message

Question

I am using the following code to show a page with a Twitter box already filled in with a message:

<a href="http://www.twitter.com/share.php?url=http://myurl.com&text=myMessage" target="_blank">Click me</a>

However, on the page, I am getting this inside the Twitter box:

myMessage/

Note the trailing slash. Any ideas how to fix this?

score 9 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 11 '13 at 14:09

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We have found a workaround for this, where you add the source=webclient parameter, crucially, to the END of the twitter address. When you do this, Twitter no longer adds the trailing slash. However, given how Twitter like to change their formats and codes around, there's no guarantee this will work forever :-)

For example...

<a href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=http://www.rsc.org%2FEducation%2FEiC%2Fissues%2F2013January%2F50th%2Delement%2Dtin%2Easp&amp;source=webclient" target="_blank">Twitter this</a>

answered Mar 11 '13 at 14:09

Andrew Wiseman

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how did you find out? that's so weird! – Karol Feb 19 '14 at 03:03
This is stupid!!! I'm sharing URL which looks like `http://website.com/page?info=data`. Of course I can't add the tralining slash after `data`, this would broke my URL! :( – Mike Keskinov Jan 29 '16 at 21:09

score 5 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 22 '14 at 09:37

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No, the solution is more simple. URL-encode your url :

https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=myMessage&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyurl.com

answered Nov 22 '14 at 09:37

David VANTYGHEM

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Nope. My URL encoded, still the same problem. Need to add traling slash, but it's not always possible (if I have get parameters, I can't add the slash after them) – Mike Keskinov Jan 29 '16 at 21:10

score 3 · Answer 3 · answered May 22 '13 at 19:12

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Add a trailing slash to your URL and that should go away. It worked for me.

Change the URL from this:

http://www.twitter.com/share?url=http://myurl.com&text=myMessage

To this:

http://www.twitter.com/share?url=http://myurl.com/&text=myMessage

answered May 22 '13 at 19:12

tnylea

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score 2 · Answer 4 · answered May 17 '15 at 22:43

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As Twitter documentation claims (twitter original reference):

A fully-qualified URL with a HTTP or HTTPS scheme, URL-encoded.

Fully-qualified URL requires to have trailing slash. From the same documentation:

Example Value: http:%3A%2F%2Fexample.com%2F

Note, that the example has %2F at the end, which is HTML encoded / character. Twitter tries to create correct URL by appending / automatically.

Set your url GET parameter to http://myurl.com/ to get rid of the trailing slash

answered May 17 '15 at 22:43

agoldis

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This works well. For those finding this question 2 years later like me, try this out. I am dynamically sharing by using ```window.location.origin``` which does not add a trailing slash to the url and caused Twitter to add one to my tweet message. However, doing ```window.location.origin + '/'``` worked. – Martavis P. Feb 25 '16 at 06:26

Weird Trailing Slash at End of Twitter Message

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