Use of Link shorteners on Twitter

[Ryan Lerch]

On 11/11/2015 12:11 PM, Patrick Uiterwijk wrote:
>> 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.
>>
> Two small remarks:
> 1. I am personally also in favor of using t.co instead of another shortener
> for security reasons (visibility etc).
> 2. Per the t.co support page[1], t.co is ONLY used when tweets are posted
> through twitter.com. I don't know how tweets are currently placed, but that
> should be taken into account if it's not through twitter.com.
Yeah, i read that too -- i think that by twitter.com they mean twitter, 
because in practise, every tweet i post to twitter is wrapped in t.co 
--  doesnt matter if i use the android client, the corebird 3rd party 
client, the webapp, or via a python script -- all links are t.co/

cheers,
ryanlerch
>
>
> [1]: https://support.twitter.com/articles/109623
>
> With kind regards,
> Patrick Uiterwijk
> Fedora Infra