Hi Ryan, I think the use of a link shortener is adequate for Twitter. This is because they have a character limit, and using a shortener greatly helps increase the amount of text you can have in a tweet. Twitter counts your link's characters even though it passes it through its own link gateway.
Cheers, Chaoyi On Tue, 10 Nov 2015 at 19:01 Ryan Lerch <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > cheers, > ryanlerch > -- > marketing mailing list > [email protected] > List info or to change your subscription: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
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