gistfile1.js

    replaceLinkText : function(text) {

        text = this._unescapeHTML.unescape(text.replace(/&/g,"&"));

        var elem = document.createElement("description");
        elem.className = "twitter-notifier-message-body";

        var pat = /((http(s?))\:\/\/)([0-9a-zA-Z\-]+\.)+[a-zA-Z]{2,6}(\:[0-9]+)?(\/([\w#!:.?+=&%@~*\';,\-\/\$])*)?/g;
        var re = /[.,;:]$/;
        while (pat.exec(text) != null) {
            var left = RegExp.leftContext;
            var url = RegExp.lastMatch;
            text = RegExp.rightContext;
            if (re.test(url)) {
                text = RegExp.lastMatch + text;
                url = url.replace(re, '');
            }

            elem.appendChild(document.createTextNode(left));

            var urltext = url;
            if (url.length > 27) {
                urltext = url.substr(0, 27) + "...";
            }
            var anchor = this.createAnchorText(url, urltext, true);
            elem.appendChild(anchor);
            pat.lastIndex = 0;
        }

        if (text) {
            elem.appendChild(document.createTextNode(text));
        }

        return elem;
    },

    createAnchorText: function(link, text, doTinyURL) {
        var anchor = document.createElement("a");
        anchor.className = "twitter-notifier-hyperlink";
        anchor.setAttribute("href", link);

        anchor.setAttribute("tooltiptext", link);

        if (doTinyURL && link.match(this._tinyURL)) {
            anchor.setAttribute("onmouseover", "gTwitterNotifier.onHoverTinyURL(this)");
        }
        anchor.appendChild(document.createTextNode(text));

        return anchor;
    },