Use of Link shorteners on Twitter

[Ryan Lerch]

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 at redhat.com 
> <mailto: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/ <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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