I’ve recently picked up my the code for my Windows Mobile Twitter client again.
It was originally written back in April as a hackday idea. The code posts Twitter updates using a variation on the twitter-from-curl approach of HTTP POSTing “status=MyTweet” to the twitter update url.
I started with the update URL, and appended the message I wanted to tweet. This is fine for a quick hackday demo, but it did mean that you could end up with a URL like:
http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml?status=Hello (twitter) world! Special chars = a problem?
Which fails if you want to post characters such as accents or characters which have special meaning in URLs, like + ? / & etc.
I was encouraged by a number of users to have another look at this, which I’ve done now, and hopefully version 1.1 solves the problems.
A quick Google turned up that a number of other Twitter apps share at least some of the same problems that mine had, so thought I’d share the fix here.
The wiki stores the pages as normal text files. So I have a copy of all of these text files on each device. 
