On 11/11/2015 10:03 AM, Chaoyi Zha wrote:
Hi Ryan,
I think the use of a link shortener is adequate for Twitter. This is
because they have a character limit, and using a shortener greatly
helps increase the amount of text you can have in a tweet. Twitter
counts your link's characters even though it passes it through its own
link gateway.
This is incorrect -- try crafting a new tweet on
twitter.com with 115
characters, then add a link with more that 25 characters -- it will let
you post it. All links on twitter go through the t.co link shortener.
cheers,
ryanlerch
Cheers,
Chaoyi
On Tue, 10 Nov 2015 at 19:01 Ryan Lerch <rlerch(a)redhat.com
<mailto:rlerch@redhat.com>> wrote:
Hi all,
Just wondering what people think about not using any link
shorteners on
the official Fedora twitter feed. Twitter actually passes all links in
tweets through their own t.co/ <
http://t.co/> link shortener, so
using another one is
just (IMHO) unnecessarily obfuscating the link from our followers on
twitter. (twitter presents all t.co <
http://t.co> links as the
full text, but the link
itself is t.co <
http://t.co>)
Looking back through the feed, the main link shortener being used is
ow.ly <
http://ow.ly>, which i assume is being done by whoever is
using Hootsuite.
cheers,
ryanlerch
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