+ // detect links, each link uses 23 characters on twitter
+ $numberOfLinks = preg_match_all('`((http|https|ftp)://[^\s<]+[^\s<\.)])`i', $statustxt);
+ $statusWithoutLinks = preg_replace('`((http|https|ftp)://[^\s<]+[^\s<\.)])`i', '', $statustxt);
+ $statusLength = mb_strlen($statusWithoutLinks) + $numberOfLinks * 23;
+