diff --git a/app/controllers/status_messages_controller.rb b/app/controllers/status_messages_controller.rb
index 1b96d0167..4985a7f52 100644
--- a/app/controllers/status_messages_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/status_messages_controller.rb
@@ -79,7 +79,10 @@ class StatusMessagesController < ApplicationController
         photos.update_all(:status_message_guid => nil)
       end
       respond_to do |format|
-        format.js { render :json =>{:errors => @status_message.errors.full_messages}, :status => 422 }
+        format.js { 
+          errors = @status_message.errors.full_messages.collect { |msg| msg.gsub(/^Text/, "") }
+          render :json =>{:errors => errors}, :status => 422
+        }
         format.html {redirect_to :back}
       end
     end
diff --git a/app/models/status_message.rb b/app/models/status_message.rb
index 504000eb3..462b6acbe 100644
--- a/app/models/status_message.rb
+++ b/app/models/status_message.rb
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ class StatusMessage < Post
   acts_as_taggable_on :tags
   extract_tags_from :raw_message
 
-  validates_length_of :text, :maximum => 10000, :too_long => I18n.t('status_messages.too_long', :count => 10000)
+  validates_length_of :text, :maximum => 10000, :message => I18n.t('status_messages.too_long', :count => 10000)
   xml_name :status_message
   xml_attr :raw_message