Gwibber does not show tweets with more than 140 characters properly

Bug #697663 reported by Christoph Gritschenberger
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Bug Description

This often happens with when displaying retweets. Obviously twitter does not count "RT @otheruse" fully as characters, but as one (I think). But gwibber cuts it off at 136 characters and finishes with " ...".

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Patrick Calhoun (phineas42) wrote :

Actually that's twitter doing the truncating, but there is a work-around. See the patch I posted below:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/gwibber/+bug/546556

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