diff --git a/include/cronhooks.php b/include/cronhooks.php
index cf1d13765f..0ba453555c 100644
--- a/include/cronhooks.php
+++ b/include/cronhooks.php
@@ -37,9 +37,15 @@ function cronhooks_run(&$argv, &$argc){
 
 	$lockpath = get_config('system','lockpath');
 	if ($lockpath != '') {
-		$pidfile = new pidfile($lockpath, 'cron.lck');
+		$pidfile = new pidfile($lockpath, 'cronhooks');
 		if($pidfile->is_already_running()) {
 			logger("cronhooks: Already running");
+			if ($pidfile->running_time() > 9*60) {
+                                $pidfile->kill();
+                                logger("cronhooks: killed stale process");
+				// Calling a new instance
+				proc_run('php','include/cronhooks.php');
+                        }
 			exit;
 		}
 	}
@@ -50,11 +56,12 @@ function cronhooks_run(&$argv, &$argc){
 
 	logger('cronhooks: start');
 
-
 	$d = datetime_convert();
 
 	call_hooks('cron', $d);
 
+	logger('cronhooks: end');
+
 	return;
 }
 
diff --git a/include/network.php b/include/network.php
index 240d2978f1..fe08fc5a7b 100644
--- a/include/network.php
+++ b/include/network.php
@@ -122,7 +122,6 @@ function fetch_url($url,$binary = false, &$redirects = 0, $timeout = 0, $accept_
 
 if(! function_exists('post_url')) {
 function post_url($url,$params, $headers = null, &$redirects = 0, $timeout = 0) {
-
 	$stamp1 = microtime(true);
 
 	$a = get_app();
@@ -130,6 +129,8 @@ function post_url($url,$params, $headers = null, &$redirects = 0, $timeout = 0)
 	if(($redirects > 8) || (! $ch))
 		return false;
 
+	logger("post_url: start ".$url, LOGGER_DATA);
+
 	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, true);
 	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,true);
 	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST,1);
@@ -178,6 +179,8 @@ function post_url($url,$params, $headers = null, &$redirects = 0, $timeout = 0)
 	$curl_info = curl_getinfo($ch);
 	$http_code = $curl_info['http_code'];
 
+	logger("post_url: result ".$http_code." - ".$url, LOGGER_DATA);
+
 	$header = '';
 
 	// Pull out multiple headers, e.g. proxy and continuation headers
@@ -190,16 +193,18 @@ function post_url($url,$params, $headers = null, &$redirects = 0, $timeout = 0)
 	}
 
 	if($http_code == 301 || $http_code == 302 || $http_code == 303 || $http_code == 307) {
-        $matches = array();
-        preg_match('/(Location:|URI:)(.*?)\n/', $header, $matches);
-        $newurl = trim(array_pop($matches));
+		$matches = array();
+		preg_match('/(Location:|URI:)(.*?)\n/', $header, $matches);
+		$newurl = trim(array_pop($matches));
 		if(strpos($newurl,'/') === 0)
 			$newurl = $old_location_info["scheme"] . "://" . $old_location_info["host"] . $newurl;
-        if (filter_var($newurl, FILTER_VALIDATE_URL)) {
-            $redirects++;
-            return fetch_url($newurl,false,$redirects,$timeout);
-        }
-    }
+		if (filter_var($newurl, FILTER_VALIDATE_URL)) {
+			$redirects++;
+			logger("post_url: redirect ".$url." to ".$newurl);
+			return post_url($newurl,$params, $headers, $redirects, $timeout);
+			//return fetch_url($newurl,false,$redirects,$timeout);
+		}
+	}
 	$a->set_curl_code($http_code);
 	$body = substr($s,strlen($header));
 
@@ -209,6 +214,8 @@ function post_url($url,$params, $headers = null, &$redirects = 0, $timeout = 0)
 
 	$a->save_timestamp($stamp1, "network");
 
+	logger("post_url: end ".$url, LOGGER_DATA);
+
 	return($body);
 }}
 
diff --git a/include/onepoll.php b/include/onepoll.php
index 49047118a4..15b8e7c2cc 100644
--- a/include/onepoll.php
+++ b/include/onepoll.php
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ function onepoll_run(&$argv, &$argc){
 	// Test
 	$lockpath = get_config('system','lockpath');
 	if ($lockpath != '') {
-		$pidfile = new pidfile($lockpath, 'onepoll'.$contact_id.'.lck');
+		$pidfile = new pidfile($lockpath, 'onepoll'.$contact_id);
 		if($pidfile->is_already_running()) {
 			logger("onepoll: Already running for contact ".$contact_id);
 			exit;
diff --git a/include/pidfile.php b/include/pidfile.php
index 47df8d1f46..4f5b25ad75 100644
--- a/include/pidfile.php
+++ b/include/pidfile.php
@@ -28,5 +28,14 @@ class pidfile {
 	public function is_already_running() {
 		return $this->_running;
 	}
+
+	public function running_time() {
+		return(time() - filectime($this->_file));
+	}
+
+	public function kill() {
+		if (file_exists($this->_file))
+			return(posix_kill(file_get_contents($this->_file), SIGTERM));
+	}
 }
 ?>
diff --git a/include/plaintext.php b/include/plaintext.php
index 18763f86aa..d824f87595 100644
--- a/include/plaintext.php
+++ b/include/plaintext.php
@@ -9,6 +9,10 @@ function get_attached_data($body) {
  - description:
  - (thumbnail)
 */
+
+	// Simplify image codes
+	$body = preg_replace("/\[img\=([0-9]*)x([0-9]*)\](.*?)\[\/img\]/ism", '[img]$3[/img]', $body);
+
 	$post = array();
 
 	if (preg_match_all("(\[class=(.*?)\](.*?)\[\/class\])ism",$body, $attached,  PREG_SET_ORDER)) {
@@ -38,40 +42,11 @@ function get_attached_data($body) {
 
 		}
 	}
-	return($post);
-}
-
-function shortenmsg($msg, $limit) {
-	$lines = explode("\n", $msg);
-	$msg = "";
-	$recycle = html_entity_decode("♲ ", ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8');
-	foreach ($lines AS $row=>$line) {
-		if (strlen(trim($msg."\n".$line)) <= $limit)
-			$msg = trim($msg."\n".$line);
-		// Is the new message empty by now or is it a reshared message?
-		elseif (($msg == "") OR (($row == 1) AND (substr($msg, 0, 4) == $recycle)))
-			$msg = substr(substr(trim($msg."\n".$line), 0, $limit), 0, -3)."...";
-		else
-			break;
-	}
-	return($msg);
-}
-
-function plaintext($a, $b, $limit = 0, $includedlinks = false) {
-	require_once("include/bbcode.php");
-	require_once("include/html2plain.php");
-	require_once("mod/parse_url.php");
-	require_once("include/network.php");
-
-	// Simplify image codes
-	$body = preg_replace("/\[img\=([0-9]*)x([0-9]*)\](.*?)\[\/img\]/ism", '[img]$3[/img]', $b["body"]);
-
-	// At first look at data that is attached via "type-..." stuff
-	// This will hopefully replaced with a dedicated bbcode later
-	$post = get_attached_data($body);
 
 	// if nothing is found, it maybe having an image.
 	if (!isset($post["type"])) {
+		require_once("mod/parse_url.php");
+
 		$URLSearchString = "^\[\]";
 		if (preg_match_all("(\[url=([$URLSearchString]*)\]\s*\[img\]([$URLSearchString]*)\[\/img\]\s*\[\/url\])ism", $body, $pictures,  PREG_SET_ORDER)) {
 			if (count($pictures) == 1) {
@@ -125,6 +100,37 @@ function plaintext($a, $b, $limit = 0, $includedlinks = false) {
 		}
 	}
 
+	return($post);
+}
+
+function shortenmsg($msg, $limit, $twitter = false) {
+	// To-Do:
+	// For Twitter URLs aren't shortened, but they have to be calculated as if.
+
+	$lines = explode("\n", $msg);
+	$msg = "";
+	$recycle = html_entity_decode("&#x2672; ", ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8');
+	foreach ($lines AS $row=>$line) {
+		if (strlen(trim($msg."\n".$line)) <= $limit)
+			$msg = trim($msg."\n".$line);
+		// Is the new message empty by now or is it a reshared message?
+		elseif (($msg == "") OR (($row == 1) AND (substr($msg, 0, 4) == $recycle)))
+			$msg = substr(substr(trim($msg."\n".$line), 0, $limit), 0, -3)."...";
+		else
+			break;
+	}
+	return($msg);
+}
+
+function plaintext($a, $b, $limit = 0, $includedlinks = false) {
+	require_once("include/bbcode.php");
+	require_once("include/html2plain.php");
+	require_once("include/network.php");
+
+	// At first look at data that is attached via "type-..." stuff
+	// This will hopefully replaced with a dedicated bbcode later
+	$post = get_attached_data($b["body"]);
+
 	if (($b["title"] != "") AND ($post["text"] != ""))
 		$post["text"] = trim($b["title"]."\n\n".$post["text"]);
 	elseif ($b["title"] != "")
diff --git a/include/poller.php b/include/poller.php
index 084067b190..b04c77f744 100644
--- a/include/poller.php
+++ b/include/poller.php
@@ -43,9 +43,15 @@ function poller_run(&$argv, &$argc){
 
 	$lockpath = get_config('system','lockpath');
 	if ($lockpath != '') {
-		$pidfile = new pidfile($lockpath, 'poller.lck');
+		$pidfile = new pidfile($lockpath, 'poller');
 		if($pidfile->is_already_running()) {
 			logger("poller: Already running");
+			if ($pidfile->running_time() > 9*60) {
+                                $pidfile->kill();
+                                logger("poller: killed stale process");
+                                // Calling a new instance
+                                proc_run('php','include/poller.php');
+                        }
 			exit;
 		}
 	}
diff --git a/include/queue.php b/include/queue.php
index 4825eb8a4d..bc3cc258cc 100644
--- a/include/queue.php
+++ b/include/queue.php
@@ -86,9 +86,15 @@ function queue_run(&$argv, &$argc){
 
 	$lockpath = get_config('system','lockpath');
 	if ($lockpath != '') {
-		$pidfile = new pidfile($lockpath, 'queue.lck');
+		$pidfile = new pidfile($lockpath, 'queue');
 		if($pidfile->is_already_running()) {
 			logger("queue: Already running");
+			if ($pidfile->running_time() > 9*60) {
+				$pidfile->kill();
+				logger("queue: killed stale process");
+				// Calling a new instance
+				proc_run('php',"include/queue.php");
+			}
 			return;
 		}
 	}
diff --git a/mod/network.php b/mod/network.php
index 585c063f56..ab44073508 100644
--- a/mod/network.php
+++ b/mod/network.php
@@ -710,7 +710,7 @@ die("ss");
 			);
 		} else {
 			$r = q("SELECT `thread`.`iid` AS `item_id`, `thread`.`network` AS `item_network`, `contact`.`uid` AS `contact_uid`
-				FROM $sql_table $sql_post_table INNER JOIN `contact` ON `contact`.`id` = `thread`.`contact-id`
+				FROM $sql_table $sql_post_table STRAIGHT_JOIN `contact` ON `contact`.`id` = `thread`.`contact-id`
 				AND `contact`.`blocked` = 0 AND `contact`.`pending` = 0
 				WHERE `thread`.`uid` = %d AND `thread`.`visible` = 1 AND `thread`.`deleted` = 0
 				AND `thread`.`moderated` = 0