Aaron Parecki

@erinjo Don't think I can help you there. GV can't really work with two different numbers forwarding to the same phone. Also I fixed the shortlinks, thx!

@benwerd oh totally. When someone calls my work phone it rings my desk phone, computer, cell phone, and pebble watch. I would do something about that if I actually got calls more often.

@FarshadNayeri There's a validator tool you use to preview your cards, then you can submit for approval there: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/cards/validation/validator It took a couple weeks for them to approve it.

@FarshadNayeri I may be a bit overzealous in my use of twitter cards. I'll see about scaling it back to only posts that have additional content as well as articles and other long-form content on my site. Thanks!

@benwerd heh, I recently started wearing a #Pebble and every time my phone rings it freaks me out cause my wrist and pocket both buzz!

@FarshadNayeri If Twitter had a field to indicate the canonical URL of a post like App.net does I wouldn't need to put the link at the end. I may also then be more inclined to respect Twitter's length limit. Will take your feedback under consideration though. Thanks!

@FarshadNayeri heh, experimenting, still some glitches. It's nice when my post is longer than Twitter's limit so you can see more inline, but yes it's redundant when they are identical. Check out the #indieweb wiki for more background info: http://indiewebcamp.com/POSSE

@FarshadNayeri lol, it's actually described right in the screenshot you linked! "When a user opens a URL with the tel scheme in a native application, iOS does not display an alert and initiates dialing without further prompting the user." Awesome!

@rothgar Not sure what you mean? I've only sent SMSs from the GV app or GV web page.

@rothgar sweet, that's a pretty good track record. I may try that again then!

@rothgar I remember saving the generated numbers from the SMSs it sent back in like 2009. In my experience the numbers would last a while but not forever. Seemed to assign a different number to a person after a couple months. Haven't tested that theory since 2009 so it may be different now.

@FarshadNayeri it doesn't show that prompt, just jumps straight to the phone. Maybe because it's coming from a native app and not from Safari?

@FarshadNayeri I think it just opens a URL like tel:1-503-555-1212, see: http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/featuredarticles/iPhoneURLScheme_Reference/Articles/PhoneLinks.html

@FarshadNayeri evidently not. It launches the regular iOS phone app but jumps into it having already pressed the "call" button.

@benwerd Yeah Android tends to be more capable for things like that. Sometimes I'm amazed with what Google can get away with being an arms length developer on the iPhone.