willi-mueller

expandLinks: {
  func: function (shortLink) {
	if (shortLink.context.href.length < 30 && shortLink.context.hostname !="twitter.com") {
        $.getJSON('http://almaer.com/endpoint/resolver.php?callback=?', 
	  {url: shortLink.context.href}, function (url) {
          if (url.length > 45) { 	//an URL with > 45 chars can break streamies tweet box layout, 45 is chosen randomly
            lastAppearance = url.lastIndexOf("/");
            if (lastAppearance < 45 && lastAppearance > 7) { 	//"http://".length == 7;
              url = url.slice(0, lastAppearance+1) + "…"; 	//generate friendlier URLs by slicing afer the last '/'													
            }