Use of Link shorteners on Twitter

Patrick Uiterwijk puiterwijk at redhat.com
Wed Nov 11 01:58:45 UTC 2015


Hi all,

> On 11/10/2015 08:33 PM, Lord Drachenblut wrote:
> > There is one reason for using ow.ly <http://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.
> 
> This was the major point I was thinking of mentioning. Personally, I
> feel like link shorteners are only necessary if they're being utilized
> to collect statistics and metrics. Judging by the context of this
> thread, do we know who has the keys to the Hootsuite? I feel like social
> media engagement statistics are something that could be an invaluable
> resource to gauging which of our social media posts are effective and
> which ones aren't as engaged.

So, I am not aware of who holds the keys to Hootsuite, but for stats tracking
this would not be required.
If we would just use t.co, Wordpress statistics that we have should see the
items coming in just fine through the http referrer header.

> 
> If this *is* already happening, then the above paragraph can be
> disregarded. In the case that statistics and metrics are being tracked,
> I personally vote to abstain from using link shorteners except where
> information about engagements and interactions are actually being utilized.
> 
> --
> Cheers,
> Justin W. Flory
> jflory7 at gmail.com
> 

With kind regards,
Patrick Uiterwijk
Fedora Infra


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