What’s up with this?
When somebody copies and pastes a status to do a RT, the display_url winds up in the clipboard. It seems twitter assigns it an entirely new t.co and pic.twitter.com link. But the status entities are showing the original t.co link, so I can’t regex the status text to update the shown URL.
Let me guess, that’s what indices are for? And I have to keep track of shifting positions after each replacement? No! 
"312613868243394560": {
"author_id": "156819060",
"reply_id": "312595282917474304",
"text": "“@wwwbigbaldhead: Yes http://t.co/MIEOSXE6yL” @xxxBULLETxxx",
"media": [
{
"type": "photo",
"url": "http://t.co/eF0b7Tb5xY",
"display_url": "pic.twitter.com/eF0b7Tb5xY",
"expanded_url": "http://twitter.com/wwwbigbaldhead/status/312595282917474304/photo/1",
"media_url": "http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BFaPwO1CQAAgn_0.jpg",
"indices": [
22,
44
]
}
],
"user_mentions": [
{
"id": "25460615",
"screen_name": "wwwbigbaldhead",
"name": "norman reedus",
"indices": [
1,
16
]
},
{
"id": "402415732",
"screen_name": "xxxBULLETxxx",
"name": "Jeremiah Todd",
"indices": [
46,
59
]
}
],
"created_at": "Fri Mar 15 17:18:48 +0000 2013"
}