On 11/11/2015 10:53 AM, Chaoyi Zha wrote:
Yes, I'm aware that it is passed through t.co <http://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.
IMHO, a full link is more aesthetically appealing than a bunch of random
characters, and more usable too -- you know what you are clicking on
before you click it. Twitter, even though it passes thrrough their
shortener, will display a portion (if not all) of the link in the
timeline, rather than the shortened link.
Unless you have a specific objection to using a shortener, I'm assuming.
my objections to using link shorteners are pretty much summed up by this
article:
http://oleb.net/blog/2012/08/please-dont-use-url-shorteners-on-twitter/
regards,
ryanlerch
On Tue, Nov 10, 2015, 7:48 PM Ryan Lerch <[email protected]
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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
<http://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 <http://t.co> link shortener.
cheers,
ryanlerch
Cheers,
Chaoyi
On Tue, 10 Nov 2015 at 19:01 Ryan Lerch <[email protected]
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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/ <http://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 <http://t.co> links as
the full text, but the link
itself is t.co <http://t.co>)
Looking back through the feed, the main link shortener being
used is
ow.ly <http://ow.ly>, which i assume is being done by
whoever is using Hootsuite.
cheers,
ryanlerch
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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 <http://t.co>. So these links are passing through t.co
<http://t.co>, then redundantly redirecting on to ow.ly
<http://ow.ly>, then on to the actual site we want.
cheers,
ryanlerch
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