# Mentions in tweet count towards mentions on Discourse site

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/mentions-in-tweet-count-towards-mentions-on-discourse-site/30339>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Created:** [2015年六月22日 22:06 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mentions-in-tweet-count-towards-mentions-on-discourse-site/30339 "2015-06-22T22:06:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![thefreekick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/thefreekick/32/43228_2.png) [@thefreekick](https://meta.discourse.org/u/thefreekick)\
**Post date:** [2015年六月22日 22:06 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mentions-in-tweet-count-towards-mentions-on-discourse-site/30339/1 "2015-06-22T22:06:17Z")

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Small issue I noticed today on my forum.

If you embed a tweet with a large number of mentions in the body of the tweet, then those mentions are screened to see if they pass the total number of allowed mentions in a post. Obviously, they aren’t real mentions because they are links on twitter, not links on Discourse.

e.g.

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/9/5/95449d68ed6414a4dcb2594c01c4af61b311ce78.png) 

gives me this error

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/0/3/03ca72a4c82e6b8a7c190ef761531758d4e84a91.png) 

I assume that shouldn’t be the case, but it’s hardly a big or frequent issue.

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**Author:** ![watchmanmonitor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/watchmanmonitor/32/430970_2.png) [@watchmanmonitor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/watchmanmonitor)\
**Post date:** [2015年六月22日 23:12 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mentions-in-tweet-count-towards-mentions-on-discourse-site/30339/2 "2015-06-22T23:12:45Z")

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I also ran into this issue when I was posting a list of 14 group members’s email addresses.

I had to up the allowed count past 10, posted, then put it back.

It would be great if the process that counted @mentions could look to see if they matched real users, or ignored them in quoted text (where they don’t work as mentions anyway)

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**Author:** ![zogstrip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/zogstrip/32/512781_2.png) [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)\
**Post date:** [2015年六月24日 09:46 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mentions-in-tweet-count-towards-mentions-on-discourse-site/30339/3 "2015-06-24T09:46:01Z")

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Thanks for reporting that issue. I just pushed a fix to make sure we don’t count mentions in oneboxes 🐈

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/80f258e51c102cf0fa746a9692f0cccae1c1afac](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/80f258e51c102cf0fa746a9692f0cccae1c1afac)

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**Author:** ![zogstrip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/zogstrip/32/512781_2.png) [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)\
**Post date:** [2015年六月24日 09:46 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mentions-in-tweet-count-towards-mentions-on-discourse-site/30339/4 "2015-06-24T09:46:04Z")

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