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I hate that people use shorturls on Twitter, especially news sites with paywalls. I check the full URL of articles in my Twitter client before I click them, especially when people share the links without any description.

Since Twitter gives all links the same allotment of characters, it's really frustrating that people insist on sticking to shorturls.

Goes to show how tracking and advertising keeps ruining the Web.



> Since Twitter gives all links the same allotment of characters

Does it? The documentation I've read doesn't suggest this, unless you're including Twitter's own wrapping of links with its own shortURL t.co


When I type in a URL, the character counter doesn't go down as I extend the URL. So there is no upside to doing it for me.


Weird, that doesn't happen for me.

http://imgur.com/a/2auu0




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