Use of Link shorteners on Twitter

Ryan Lerch rlerch at redhat.com
Wed Nov 11 00:01:03 UTC 2015


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/ link shortener, so using another one is 
just (IMHO) unnecessarily obfuscating the link from our followers on 
twitter. (twitter presents all t.co links as the full text, but the link 
itself is t.co)

Looking back through the feed, the main link shortener being used is 
ow.ly, which i assume is being done by whoever is using Hootsuite.

cheers,
ryanlerch


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