You tiny-url'd my decenturl! :(

Hi Paul.

Twitter will use TinyURL to shorten any URL that is longer than 30 characters, according to the Twitter FAQ.

See http://help.twitter.com/index.php?pg=...
and search for "Tiny URL" (with a space) on that help page.

Apparently, Twitter will do this whether or not your entire message is over the 140 character limit.

In your case, the URL was 41 characters long, so it got tinyurl'd.

If you're looking for a way to post more meaningful and shorter URLs, I suggest trying http://fon.gs/ (FON Get Simple). They let you specify the link-name you want your shortened link to have.

Ah! 30 characters is pretty aggressive, but okey doke! thank you mdy!

Also .. by accident I have found out that if you don't put HTTP:// infront of the URL just the www. then it fails to recognise it and does not shorten it. Either that or twitters tiny urls wasn't working everytime i did this.

I don't userstand why twitter does this. Sometimes posting a url can carry a message, it's up to the user to decide if that's how they want to use their characters?

What next, auto detecting addresses and changing it to a link to a mapping website?!

In my opinion, Twitter should not be changing the content of users messages at all.

i said it before ... just write www.blahblahblah .com and it comes out fine however long ... if you write http://www.blahblahblah.com it will tiny url it.

I've sent them a 'help' request about this issue. I have a problem with them changing my messages, using TinyURL when it's not needed, and ruining the freaking link. I agree with colm.

I would just like the option to NOT tiny a URL. Maybe if we put it in quotes or something, could that be a workaround? I think that such an escape code would have to be hardcoded, but the meaning would be clear at least: I want this verbatim, so QUOTE me on it! :P