Yes, I'm aware that it is passed through t.co. If it counts the links as the same amount of characters, we might still want to keep the shortened URLs for aesthetics, as long links don't look very good on mobile.
Unless you have a specific objection to using a shortener, I'm assuming. On Tue, Nov 10, 2015, 7:48 PM Ryan Lerch <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11/11/2015 10:34 AM, Ryan Lerch wrote: > > On 11/11/2015 10:03 AM, Chaoyi Zha wrote: > > 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. > > This is incorrect -- try crafting a new tweet on twitter.com with 115 > characters, then add a link with more that 25 characters -- it will let you > post it. All links on twitter go through the t.co link shortener. > > cheers, > ryanlerch > > > 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 > > > > > > > Also, have a look at this tweet: > > https://twitter.com/fedora/status/664172103525146624 > > If you inspect the link in that tweet, (or copy the link address to see > the href of it), you will see that the link is actaully t.co. So these > links are passing through t.co, then redundantly redirecting on to ow.ly, > then on to the actual site we want. > > 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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