Use of Link shorteners on Twitter

[Lord Drachenblut]

There is one reason for using ow.ly URL shortener and that is it allows the
person posting via hootsuite to track engagement with a post.  I would
rather see a URL shortener that is fedora branded being used if possible.

On Tue, Nov 10, 2015, 8:02 PM Ryan Lerch <rlerch at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 11/11/2015 10:53 AM, Chaoyi Zha wrote:
>
> Yes,  I'm aware that it is passed through t.co. If it counts the links as
> the same amount of characters,  we might still want to keep the shortened
> URLs for aesthetics, as long links don't look very good on mobile.
>
> IMHO, a full link is more aesthetically appealing than a bunch of random
> characters, and more usable too -- you know what you are clicking on before
> you click it. Twitter, even though it passes thrrough their shortener, will
> display a portion (if not all) of the link in the timeline, rather than the
> shortened link.
>
> Unless you have a specific objection to using a shortener,  I'm assuming.
>
> my objections to using link shorteners are pretty much summed up by this
> article:
>
> http://oleb.net/blog/2012/08/please-dont-use-url-shorteners-on-twitter/
>
> regards,
> ryanlerch
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2015, 7:48 PM Ryan Lerch <rlerch at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> On 11/11/2015 10:34 AM, Ryan Lerch wrote:
>>
>> 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> 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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>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Also, have a look at this tweet:
>>
>> https://twitter.com/fedora/status/664172103525146624
>>
>> If you inspect the link in that tweet, (or copy the link address to see
>> the href of it), you will see that the link is actaully t.co. So these
>> links are passing through t.co, then redundantly redirecting on to ow.ly,
>> then on to the actual site we want.
>>
>> cheers,
>> ryanlerch
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