Twitter Display Guidelines

It's ironic to me that on a page discussing display guidelines, the numbers inside of the red circles overlaying the screenshot are not x/y centered. It's annoying me, I want to fix it :(<p>Anyhoot, on the topic, it would be nice if Twitter would give you a special .png image that's generated on the fly or something by the server, for a tweet. Like embedding a youtube video, but simpler. Like add .png to the basic tweet_detail URL to get an image of it.<p>Example: <a href="http://twitter.com/whalesalad/status/14450770448" rel="nofollow">http://twitter.com/whalesalad/status/14450770448</a> Could be: <a href="http://twitter.com/whalesalad/status/14450770448.png" rel="nofollow">http://twitter.com/whalesalad/status/14450770448.png</a><p>Of coures this presents a whole new can of worms for the Twitter team... but it would be nice :) There might even be a way to do it where you can't hotlink it, but you can download the file and host it yourself.<p>A real life example of this occurs when hitting up speedtest.net. Once you're finished, you're given a simple link to share on forums, with friends, etc.. to a generated image of your results. (<a href="http://www.speedtest.net/result/822174957.png" rel="nofollow">http://www.speedtest.net/result/822174957.png</a>)

The title says "Guidelines" but the page itself calls them "REQUIREMENTS" and says you have to email Twitter for approval if you want to deviate from them.<p>If it's really their intention to enforce this on all Twitter API users, then I think it's a huge mistake.

Notice how point #3 says hashtags should be linked, but in their reference image the #TweetUp hashtag isn't linked.

I might be hypersensitive here, but my first thought is "is it time to jump ship"?<p>I refer to the "Branding" section - for the first time Twitter makes it clear who owns the Tweets in their opinion. And it is Twitter, not the users.<p>Bummer :-(<p>(Speaking as a developer of Twitter apps)

So for example what Panic is doing [1] would not be ok and in need of approval? Twitter sure has some fascists working on their branding, I’m not really sure whether that’s good or bad, though.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.panic.com/blog/" rel="nofollow">http://www.panic.com/blog/</a>

I'm not exactly sure how this helps Twitter.

The one nit I've always had is whether third-party apps/sites link the @ symbol when attached to usernames. I prefer unlinked @ symbols (as seen on twitter.com site), but even so, search.twitter.com links the @ symbol... how consistent.

This page was a very pleasant surprise find when they introduced dev.twitter.com at Chirp in April. I don't like that most Twitter clients reinvent the wheel in terms of UI. A little consistency and familiarity doesn't hurt.

So uh my little Chrome extension I made has to do all this shit? Uh fuck that, thank you very much. I'd rather just delete the extension. What a bunch of bullshit.