With this in mind, personally, I feel like link shorteners are not
necessary then. If we can get the stats, I personally think it's not a
bad idea to avoid them.
Two small remarks:
1. I am personally also in favor of using t.co instead of another shortener
for security reasons (visibility etc).
2. Per the t.co support page[1], t.co is ONLY used when tweets are posted
through
twitter.com. I don't know how tweets are currently placed, but that
should be taken into account if it's not through
twitter.com.
[1]:
https://support.twitter.com/articles/109623
With kind regards,
Patrick Uiterwijk
Fedora Infra