Use of Link shorteners on Twitter

[Justin W. Flory]

On 11/10/2015 08:58 PM, Patrick Uiterwijk wrote:
> 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.

With this in mind, personally, I feel like link shorteners are not 
necessary then. If we can get the stats, I personally think it's not a 
bad idea to avoid them.

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Cheers,
Justin W. Flory
jflory7 at gmail.com

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