Twitter – How to Prevent Words Like ASP.NET from Converting to Links

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Currently, Twitter converts anything that has dot inside it into a link, e.g. ASP.NET becomes http://ASP.NET, Any.DO becomes http://Any.DO etc. I currently make a space if I want the word to stay the way it should, e.g. "ASP. NET" though it is not right.

Is there a hack around this Twitter bug? Like if there would be some unicode character that looked like a dot and could be inserted there or something like that.

Best Answer

Use a zero-width space. It's completely unnoticeable: ASP.​Net

I also use this trick to get around the minimum-character limit on some sites * cough *.