diff --git a/QvitterPlugin.php b/QvitterPlugin.php
index 96a6102..7e6c362 100644
--- a/QvitterPlugin.php
+++ b/QvitterPlugin.php
@@ -528,15 +528,17 @@ class QvitterPlugin extends Plugin {
                                     $oembed->title = $twitter_username;
                                     }
                                 $oembed_html = str_replace('…','...',$oembed_html); // ellipsis is sometimes stored as html in db, for some reason
-                                $oembed_html = trim(strip_tags(html_entity_decode($oembed_html))); // sometimes we have html charachters that we want to decode and then strip
-                                $oembed_title = trim(strip_tags(html_entity_decode($oembed->title)));
+                                $oembed_html = substr(trim(strip_tags(html_entity_decode($oembed_html,ENT_QUOTES))),0,250); // sometimes we have html charachters that we want to decode and then strip
+                                $oembed_title = trim(strip_tags(html_entity_decode($oembed->title,ENT_QUOTES)));
+                                $oembed_provider = trim(strip_tags(html_entity_decode($oembed->provider,ENT_QUOTES)));
+                                $oembed_author_name = trim(strip_tags(html_entity_decode($oembed->author_name,ENT_QUOTES)));
                                 $attachment_url_to_id[$enclosure_o->url]['oembed'] = array(
                                     'type'=> $oembed->type,
-                                    'provider'=> $oembed->provider,
+                                    'provider'=> $oembed_provider,
                                     'provider_url'=> $oembed->provider_url,
                                     'oembedHTML'=> $oembed_html,
                                     'title'=> $oembed_title,
-                                    'author_name'=> $oembed->author_name,
+                                    'author_name'=> $oembed_author_name,
                                     'author_url'=> $oembed->author_url
                                 );
                             } else {