Oh.
<a href='http://shanescavestory.createaforum.com/tale-of-dale/tale-of-dale-0-05-beta-(pre-release' class='bbc_url' title='External link' rel='nofollow external'>http://shanescavesto...ta-(pre-release</a>)/
<a href='http://shanescavestory.createaforum.com/tale-of-dale/tale-of-dale-0-05-beta-(pre-release' class='bbc_url' title='External link' rel='nofollow external'>http://shanescavesto...ta-(pre-release</a>)/
Long links break in the initial Status Update. I think you can get around that if you use the URL tags for the initial Status Update.