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Re:The problems with url shorteners by tlrobinson on Friday April 03, 2009 @08:02PM (#545860)
And, of course, there's Twitter's useless implementation of auto-shortening, which occurs after you submit, thus the 140 limit applies to the original URL.

Most useless "feature" ever.

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Re:The problems with url shorteners by pclark on Saturday April 04, 2009 @08:10AM (#546279)
Twitter could have, and really should have, nipped this issue in the bud when they launched by releasing an internal url shortener service + API.

Twitter should expand (or sanely expand to tiny descriptive url) when tinyurls are sent.

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