diff --git a/app/assets/javascripts/app/controllers/ticket_zoom/article_actions.coffee b/app/assets/javascripts/app/controllers/ticket_zoom/article_actions.coffee
index f060c8e68..a7ae281b7 100644
--- a/app/assets/javascripts/app/controllers/ticket_zoom/article_actions.coffee
+++ b/app/assets/javascripts/app/controllers/ticket_zoom/article_actions.coffee
@@ -211,12 +211,12 @@ class App.TicketZoomArticleActions extends App.Controller
     recipients = article.from
     if article.to
       if recipients
-        recipients += ' '
+        recipients += ', '
       recipients += article.to
 
     if recipients
       recipientString = ''
-      recipientScreenNames = recipients.split(' ')
+      recipientScreenNames = recipients.split(',')
       for recipientScreenName in recipientScreenNames
 
         # exclude already listed screen name
diff --git a/app/assets/javascripts/app/controllers/ticket_zoom/article_new.coffee b/app/assets/javascripts/app/controllers/ticket_zoom/article_new.coffee
index 20c2e183c..e87088d3b 100644
--- a/app/assets/javascripts/app/controllers/ticket_zoom/article_new.coffee
+++ b/app/assets/javascripts/app/controllers/ticket_zoom/article_new.coffee
@@ -295,21 +295,29 @@ class App.TicketZoomArticleNew extends App.Controller
     if params.type is 'twitter status'
       rawHTML = @$('[data-name=body]').html()
       cleanHTML = App.Utils.htmlRemoveRichtext(rawHTML)
-      if cleanHTML && cleanHTML.html() != rawHTML
+
+      # if markup is included, strip it out
+      if cleanHTML && cleanHTML.html() isnt rawHTML && "<div>#{cleanHTML.html()}</div>" isnt rawHTML
         @$('[data-name=body]').html(cleanHTML)
       params.content_type = 'text/plain'
       params.body = "#{App.Utils.html2text(params.body, true)}\n#{@signature.text()}"
+
     if params.type is 'twitter direct-message'
       rawHTML = @$('[data-name=body]').html()
       cleanHTML = App.Utils.htmlRemoveRichtext(rawHTML)
-      if cleanHTML && cleanHTML.html() != rawHTML
+
+      # if markup is included, strip it out
+      if cleanHTML && cleanHTML.html() isnt rawHTML && "<div>#{cleanHTML.html()}</div>" isnt rawHTML
         @$('[data-name=body]').html(cleanHTML)
       params.content_type = 'text/plain'
       params.body = "#{App.Utils.html2text(params.body, true)}\n#{@signature.text()}"
+
     if params.type is 'facebook feed comment'
       rawHTML = @$('[data-name=body]').html()
       cleanHTML = App.Utils.htmlRemoveRichtext(rawHTML)
-      if cleanHTML && cleanHTML.html() != rawHTML
+
+      # if markup is included, strip it out
+      if cleanHTML && cleanHTML.html() isnt rawHTML && "<div>#{cleanHTML.html()}</div>" isnt rawHTML
         @$('[data-name=body]').html(cleanHTML)
       params.content_type = 'text/plain'
       params.body = App.Utils.html2text(params.body, true)
@@ -372,7 +380,6 @@ class App.TicketZoomArticleNew extends App.Controller
           return false
 
     if params.type is 'twitter status'
-      params.body
       textLength = @maxTextLength - params.body.length
       return false if textLength < 0
 
diff --git a/lib/tweet_base.rb b/lib/tweet_base.rb
index 1244541cb..0318c1714 100644
--- a/lib/tweet_base.rb
+++ b/lib/tweet_base.rb
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ class TweetBase
           if !to
             to = ''
           else
-            to + ', '
+            to += ', '
           end
           to += "@#{local_user.screen_name}"
         }