from sharing modal, from Twitter button, truncate Q title at 69 characters

[davidmooreppf]

Post-launch probably.

Out of 140 characters, this boilerplate is 71 characters ::

Support my question on @askthemPPF: http://goo.gl/51txG1

... leaving 69 max for Q title, without an ellipsis.

Could be 66 characters if the ... can be added.

cc @maryamgunja

[davidmooreppf]

cc @reville - so from signed Q page ::

http://www.askthem.io/questions/52ec3cadf92ea12e3b000004

... full Tweet is as below ::

"Support my question to @BarackObama on @AskThemPPF: Will you sign the USA FREEDOM Act, a bipartisan bill to reform the NSA's mass domestic surveillance? http://www.askthem.io/questions/52ec3cadf92ea12e3b000004"

... so the askthem URL will still go through t.co when it's under 140 characters, but that won't happen until the Tweet is under 140.

Recognizing there's a lot of variants & elements here, can we try ideal solution of ::

• Always including "Support my question on @AskThemPPF to " (37 chars)
• Recipient Twitterame (varies)
• t.co link (20 chars)

... so then either truncate title dynamically to get under 140 threshold, or probably easier, just truncate at like 50 characters (and in quotes) to make sure there's enough room for Twitter name?

[walter]

I want to make a point here about user interaction and control.

Right now we populate the content in a standard way, but we do not pull the trigger for the user. They have an opportunity to edit the content to fit as they would like.

I wonder if we are over anticipating and also disabling our users by doing things like dropping some of the building blocks (e.g. recipient) if have a truncating process before they get the chance to edit how they like.

cc @reville