Automatically convert links

For the Multi Twitter widget.

I’m not sure what the option ‘Automatically convert links’ is supposed to do. Turning it off or on did not seems to change anything. I found it more useful to replace the line that conditionally does the link converting as follows:

Replaced:
widget.php:141:
$tweet = preg_replace('#(^|[\n ])(([\w]+?://[\w\#$%&~.\-;:=,?@\[\]+]*)(/[\w\#$%&~/.\-;:=,?@\[\]+]*)?)#is', '\\1\\2', $tweet);

with:
widget.php:141:
$tweet = preg_replace('#(^|[\n ])(([\w]+?://[\w\#$%&~.\-;:=,?@\[\]+]*)(/[\w\#$%&~/.\-;:=,?@\[\]+]*)?)#is', '<a target="_blank" href="${0}">${0}</a>', $tweet);

With this change links become proper links.

Note the _blank target which I also found useful on the reply and hashtag links. For this I added this attribute/value on line 130 and 135 of widget.php too.

https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/multi-twitter-widget/