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Basically what 0xDEAD10CC said. Presuming this is a web application, it would be trivial to use a bit of JavaScript to convert these "pseudo-links" into actual URLs to services, e.g. http://twitter.com/{0}. Regex, or if you're lazy, indexOf() and split(), then switch(), will do the job.

Yeah. i'll have to learn regex. what a drag.

Hey now, Regex is a very good skill to have. Besides, if you really wanted to resist, my way would also work.