Sgt_Kickaxe - 1:42 am on May 25, 2011 (gmt 0)

nevermind, it seems I need to follow Twitter news more closely (bleh). They disabled old status links and want webmasters to use the new intent platform instead.

http://example.com/intent/tweet?text=Blue+Widget+Sale+on+http://www.example.com

apparently you can use the symbol @ but not the hashtag #, for that use "%23" without the quotes instead.