Use of Link shorteners on Twitter

[Chaoyi Zha]

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.

Cheers,
Chaoyi

On Tue, 10 Nov 2015 at 19:01 Ryan Lerch <rlerch at 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/ 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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