amos083@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2018 09:43:10 +0200
Actually this *is* Twitter's fault! (Though not in the way Giuliani thinks). It is obvious that Giuliani was not aware that Twitter is turning periods in his post into links. But did Twitter do anything to make their users -- especially the less technically inclined -- aware of this fact? Is there a way to turn this mis-feature off? Why did Twitter make it active by default, and in such a dumb way (the generated link was not valid as written, so it's obvious the user did not intend to enter a link there)?
I have been struggling for years with Gmail's habit of inserting links into my incoming mail. In a past project, I had to analyse data sent in by mail as rows of numbers; Gmail insists on turning some of them into links to (non existent) phone numbers and addresses, which greatly complicates automatic analysis. (I'd love to hear from anyone who knows how to turn this off).