There is one reason for using ow.ly URL shortener and that is it allows the person posting via hootsuite to track engagement with a post. I would rather see a URL shortener that is fedora branded being used if possible.
On Tue, Nov 10, 2015, 8:02 PM Ryan Lerch <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11/11/2015 10:53 AM, Chaoyi Zha wrote: > > 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. > > 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]> 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 > > > > > -- > marketing mailing list > [email protected] > List info or to change your subscription: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing -- Cheers Matthew "Lord Drachenblut" Williams
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