Use of Link shorteners on Twitter

[Jiri Eischmann]

Ryan Lerch píše v St 11. 11. 2015 v 10:01 +1000:
> 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.

Ditch it. I stopped using bitly when Twitter introduced t.co which was
a long time ago. There is no need to use them unless you want to
collect statistical data as someone has already mentioned. But Twitter
provides basic statistics nowadays as well.

Jiri
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