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A comment on the question "Why are some links redirected through tinyurl.com? Any way to disable that?" in Twitter:

I'm not talking about the ellipses that appear just before the timestamps in the end of the entries. I'm referring to the ellipses inside URLs, like http://mura-vey.livejournal... or http://www.fuga.ru/misc/hai...

They also appear on the individual status pages, like here. Do you see them now? – Alexander Konovalenko, on October 11, 2008 13:52

Alexander Konovalenko started following the question "Why the mandatory tinyurls?" in Twitter.

A comment on the question "Why are some links redirected through tinyurl.com? Any way to disable that?" in Twitter:

Twitter does shorten the link if the URL is longer than 30 characters. However, it does not always do it through tinyurl.com, which is a third-party redirection service. See my Twitter profile (Russian) for example: all longer links but one are direct links with an ellipsis in the end, and only the latest one is through tinyurl.com.

Thanks for the pointer to another discussion. I have missed it. – Alexander Konovalenko, on October 11, 2008 12:24

A comment on the question "Why does my URL not show the address?" in Twitter:

But some links are not (currently) redirected through tinyurl.com. They are just shortened with their final part replaced with an ellipsis (...), but they're still direct links.
How does Twitter decide whether to use tinurl.com or not? – Alexander Konovalenko, on October 10, 2008 18:02

Alexander Konovalenko asked a question in Twitter on October 10, 2008 17:45:

Why are some links redirected through tinyurl.com? Any way to disable that?

Why does Twitter replace some of my URLs with tinyurl.com links? Up until now it used to just replace the final part of long links with an ellipsis (...), but it still was a direct link to the destination, not to a redirection service site.

Today a link to http://photography.nationalgeographic... has been replaced with http://tinyurl.com/4y578c. The remaining characters meter showed 13, so there shouldn't have been any problem with the message length.

I do not want to use any tinyurl.com service. Is there a way to disable it?

I would like all links to point directly to their destinations (no problem if they are shortened with ellipsis). How can I achieve that?

Alexander Konovalenko started following the problem "Do not modify our tweets! TinyURL broken and annoying" in Twitter.

Alexander Konovalenko started following the question "Why does my URL not show the address?" in Twitter.

Alexander Konovalenko started following the question "Why does my URL not show the address?" in Twitter.