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Hi,
On some links in twitter feeds, when FeedDemon converts them to clickable links there is an error, and a closing tag is embedded into the link's address.
I think that it only happens when the link is at the end of the tweet, and not somewhere inside the message (which can explain the div).
I also think that it happens only (or mostly) on messages that aren't in English. Well, the feed's field does state en-us, but most of the message is encoded characters in another language (esp. Hebrew in the cases I encountered).
Something like "http://bit.ly/Fake" will be displayed on screen as "http://bit.ly/Fake", but will have an anchor tag of "http://bit.ly/Fake%3C/div%3E" (which affects the displated information on the status bar in FeedDemon, and of course the link that the browser will try to open when I click it).
If you don't find any cause based on this description I can provide a feed where it happened recently (so the items are still there)
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| "closing tag" was of course supposed to be "closing < / div > tag". I'm not sure if I forgot to type it, or if the forum's software dropped it for being an HTML tag, so now I wrote it with spaces... (Should be clear from the rest of the message, but still)
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| I just scanned the Twitter public timeline feed looking for examples of this problem, but I didn't run across any. If you find a specific example, please let me know! Thanks,
Nick Bradbury
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Hi Nick,
I looked for a sample, and found this one .
Mainly, notice that URLs at the end have the closing div embedded. See for example the post 4704279772 with a bit.ly link .
There are some URLs that weren't linked, but it's because she wrote them without spaces from the previous word, so not your fault. Visually it's easy, because of the language change, but probably not a good idea to try and do automatically.
I also see that these feeds has "(author unknown) at the author field, while tweeter feeds with English-only content do have the name recognized.
Another issue, which may be related, is that in some of the tweets I see the opening, which is the author's name followed by a colon, being linked to the tweeter page, while others aren't (which is the normal case).
It seems to happen in tweets that have only a single word beyond the name, and also in some the cases where not all of the characters are in Hebrew due to the not-recognized links. (I'm not completely sure about the relation)
In these case the post in FeedDemon is also aligned to the left, while in the rest the Hebrew content is recognized the the content is aligned to the right.
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Hi Nick,
Sorry for bumping, but I wanted to know if you managed to see the same problem with this feed? And if so, is it something that you expect to be able to fix soon, or will it take a while? (It's not very urgent for me, I have only very few such twitter feeds, and manually editing the links if I want to open one isn't a big problem. I'd just appreciate even a very rough time estimate )
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| Sorry - I thought I'd already followed-up on this! I was able to reproduce the bug you reported, and it turned out to be triggered by some CSS that GReader inserts in Twitter feeds containing right-to-left text. This is fixed in the next build, which I'm expecting to release this week. Thanks,
Nick Bradbury
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Update: Sorry, but it looks like it'll be another 10-14 days before the next build is available. I had hoped to release it before now, but life got it the way 
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| I'm familiar with this "life" thing... No problem, and thanks for letting us know.
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