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@replies from people I'm following to people who aren't me, don't show up in my timeline. However, they do show up if I visit my followee's twitter page directly.

I expect that if I'm following someone, ALL of their tweets would show on my timeline -- this is how it used to work, and I see no option in my Preferences to change my timeline back to this behavior.

When tweeting URLs, even if I'm not over the 140-character limit, Twitter automatically shortens those URLs without asking me first.

I do not click, and would strongly prefer not to tweet short URLs, because they obscure the link destination and make it very difficult for me to tell if the link I'm about to click is in some way malicious. As a general rule, the link's destination should be immediately clear BEFORE I click it.

Furthermore, there is no option to disable this misfeature. TWITTER DEVS: Please add an option to turn this behavior off.

Thanks.