From c47658c7c5326512f91dd8415acce5d071aee0fc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Arpit Jalan <arpit@techapj.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2017 21:47:44 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] FIX: first @mention/#hashtag is not a hyperlink in Twitter
 onebox

https://meta.discourse.org/t/first-mention-is-not-a-hyperlink-in-twitter-onebox/65665
---
 lib/twitter_api.rb | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/twitter_api.rb b/lib/twitter_api.rb
index 373c6838f1f..2c9ce48a601 100644
--- a/lib/twitter_api.rb
+++ b/lib/twitter_api.rb
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ class TwitterApi
     protected
 
     def link_handles_in(text)
-      text.scan(/\s@(\w+)/).flatten.uniq.each do |handle|
+      text.scan(/(?:^|\s)@(\w+)/).flatten.uniq.each do |handle|
         text.gsub!("@#{handle}", [
           "<a href='https://twitter.com/#{handle}' target='_blank'>",
             "@#{handle}",
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ class TwitterApi
     end
 
     def link_hashtags_in(text)
-      text.scan(/\s#(\w+)/).flatten.uniq.each do |hashtag|
+      text.scan(/(?:^|\s)#(\w+)/).flatten.uniq.each do |hashtag|
         text.gsub!("##{hashtag}", [
           "<a href='https://twitter.com/search?q=%23#{hashtag}' ",
           "target='_blank'>",