At some point in the last few months the gateway started adding user profile image URLs to the gatewayed messages from Twitter.  I’m using Pidgin on Linux for my IM client.  So a sample message looks like:

(02:15:42 PM) .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address): http://a1.twimg.com/profile_images/273625688/sxbvnTNa.IMG_0006_normal.JPG Dave Kearns (dak3): The smells coming from the kitchen are driving me CRAZY!

ie, a long image URL messing up the look of the message.  Is it a problem with my client that it doesn’t handle this properly?  Do other IM clients do something useful with it?  Or can that URL be made a link behind some icon or something?

Thanks,

- RL “Bob”

Hello,

Pidgin does not support image rendering in xhtml.
We will add a option to disable XHTML for people using client that do not support it properly.

Try tinyurl.com That shortens it

Thanks for a great product :)
I’m also looking forward to the option to disable images, as much as I’d like to see avatars in chat, I use Pidgin, so that’s not an option :(