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Ask HN: When Twitter is going to fix it's URL shortening?

Most of the time Twitter won’t let you tweet 140 character because of Twitter’s bad URL shortening strategy. Twitter’s shortened URL eats more than 22 characters. That is over 15% of Twitter’s 140 character limit.

So if we try to tweet something with a link in it, we actually have 115-120 characters to tweet instead of 140. That is around 85% of what Twitter actually provides, rest 15% is occupied by Twitter’s short URL. When Twitter is going to accept it as real problem and fix it?

( 3 comments | 7 points | on HN )
Re:Ask HN: When Twitter is going to fix it's URL shortening? by anthony_franco on Saturday July 16, 2016 @02:39AM (#12105496)
Re:Ask HN: When Twitter is going to fix it's URL shortening? by mikecke on Saturday July 16, 2016 @02:36AM (#12105493)
This is not big of an issue you make it out to be.
Re:Ask HN: When Twitter is going to fix it's URL shortening? by leesalminen on Saturday July 16, 2016 @11:32PM (#12108912)
I've always thought of it as a flaw in their strategy. It results in less content in the tweet and encourages plain click-thrus.