Twitter and Javascript

Question

I just came across something extremely annoying that took me ages to figure out. I was calling window.open('http://www.twitter.com/share?url=...&text=...','twitterShare','width=500,height=400') in a JS function for a SWF file to trigger and for the life of me the freakin' message wouldn't properly unencode hashtags and spaces (%23 and %20 respectively).

The solution is to REMOVE 'www.' from the twitter.com/share URL. Then it encodes everything fine.

I hope this helps someone so you don't muck around for an hour like I did.

Answer 1

A thousand thank-yous. I have just wasted 4hrs on this problem and was ready to give up. Thanks for taking the time to post.