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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?
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?
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Inappropriate?I believe Twitter uses tinyurl when the URL in question is longer than 30 characters, whether or not there are enough characters left out of the 140 char max length.
Unfortunately, I'm not aware of a way to disable it.
Also, there's a separate thread where people are discussing this topic. Kindly see: http://gsfn.us/t/k2a4 Comments
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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. -
Thanks for the link to your profile, Alexander.
The ellipsis at the end seems like a bug. Each of them seems to be the permalink of the tweet, meaning, when I click on the ellipses, I'm taken to the individual page for one tweet. It's equivalent to me clicking on the timestamp of the tweet to see the page.
I suggest filing a support ticket at http://twitter.com/help so someone from Support can look into it. -
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? -
Ah yes. I see what you mean! Thanks for explaining.
It's my understanding that the ellipses are just a display mask -- meaning, it looks like the URL was shortened, but the actual URL is not shortened at all. It's just styled to look like it was shortened.
When I use a third-party site (such as http://m.slandr.net) to view your profile, the livejournal URLs are not shortened at all.
I believe they added the URL masking feature because there have been a lot of cases where users paste in a very long URL, and this causes the tweet to extend all the way to the right, past the sidebar (You can click here to see a screenshot of what the problem looked like). This display mask eliminates the display problem. -
Inappropriate?Please leave URLs alone if they fit in the 140 characters of the tweet. This way, users will not be forced to do things like upside-down URLs (http://twitter.com/burke_eric/statuse...)
I’m not seeing any reason for URL shortening when the entire tweet fits.
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Inappropriate?LEAVE IT TO USERS' CHOICE! DON'T EDIT MY TWEETS IF THEY'RE UNDER 140 LIMIT!
I own some top level single name domains (e.g name.com or another.org) and want my links to remain as them (part of what I PAY FOR) not some "bit.ly" address!
I am not some spammer, these are my real, developed domains with an audience receiving re-tweets through my main page in one case. I wan't people to see it's a link to my real site, not some spam!
And I'm pretty sure this didn't use to be the case for my sites, and that I had posted some in the past that were left alone (the ellipses of course) because the message did not exceed 140. this is something that I think just began happening on my account (it looks like from previous posts this was a problem then discontinued for some time and now is back)).
why not have a setting for "allow url modification" (and a choice on company to do so) or "NOT"?
it's almost like there's some kickback to twitter for forcing us through these redirects?
p.s. this whole "getsatisfaction" thing isn't so great either. I would prefer staying ON twitter for help and not having to add cookie allowances and give my email address to anyone else just to get this "help"!
I’m very unhappy about this
