Twitter launches own shortener t.co
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Twitter launches own shortener t.co
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Re: Twitter launches own shortener t.co
#2It will also be expanding the size of the tweet to 140 not including the URI and providing expanded URIs in addition to the shortened link. More information at http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/brow...
Re: Twitter launches own shortener t.co
#3From their help page: http://help.twitter.com/entries/109623
> "All links included in Direct Message notification emails currently pass through our link service and are converted to a http://t.co link. We've also begun testing this service for links in Tweets"
I'm curious whether they're going to outright put a blanket ban on "alternative" URL shorteners like they did with Twitter-based Ad services.
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#4From their help page: http://help.twitter.com/entries/109623 > "All links included in Direct Message notification emails currently pass through our link service and are converted to a http://t.co link. We've also begun testing this service for links in Tweets" I'm curious whether they're going to outright put a blanket ban on "alternative" URL shorteners like they did with Twitter-based Ad services.
Looks like they're going to wrap existing shortened URLs with t.co:
If you are already partial to a particular shortener when you tweet, you can continue to use it for link shortening and analytics as you normally would, and we'll wrap the shortened links you submit.
http://blog.twitter.com/2010/06/links-and-twitter-length-sho...
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#5"We will be updating the TOS to require you to check t.co and register the click."
Damn. Looks like URL shorteners are here to stay, permanently, and twitter is crowding out all existing link shorteners.
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#6From their help page: http://help.twitter.com/entries/109623 > "All links included in Direct Message notification emails currently pass through our link service and are converted to a http://t.co link. We've also begun testing this service for links in Tweets" I'm curious whether they're going to outright put a blanket ban on "alternative" URL shorteners like they did with Twitter-based Ad services.
Looks like they're going to wrap existing shortened URLs with t.co: If you are already partial to a particular shortener when you tweet, you can continue to use it for link shortening and analytics as you normally would, and we'll wrap the shortened links you submit. http://blog.twitter.com/2010/06/links-and-twitter-length-sho...
It is not a shortener. It is a small condom. That's what the .co stands for.
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#7"We will be updating the TOS to require you to check t.co and register the click." Damn. Looks like URL shorteners are here to stay, permanently, and twitter is crowding out all existing link shorteners.
They already know what everyones clicking on.
Except maybe in the twitter clients.
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#8From users' perspective, the big thing here is that clients can now show where links in tweets actually lead. For brevity, the link text should probably just be the domain it leads to, but it should make things a whole lot more readable.
Before - This is a great news site: http://bit.ly/2Mp91y
After - This is a great news site: news.ycombinator.com
A loss for URL shortener services, but a win for users.
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#9> If you are already partial to a particular shortener when you tweet, you can continue to use it for link shortening and analytics as you normally would, and we'll wrap the shortened links you submit.
I really hope this habit doesn't catch on. If it does each link will have three points of failure instead of one (as it should) or two (as it will with t.co).
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#10What is wrong with these people, just fix twitter so url's don't count to the count.
Morons.
There's no better user experience to a shortened url, it's like having unprotected sex with a random in a nightclub, you've no idea what you could end up with.
Repeat after me, shortened urls break the web and are inherently evil.