We pass through all the urls through longurl gem to expand, if any of them are short ones. For youtube urls we saw a bug.
1.9.2p290 :004 > LongURL.expand('http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vryUK6KoGDk&feature=BFa&list=PL296CFE2F66E73D4C&index=96')
=> "http://www.youtube.com/"
I guess we can work around the above issue.