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Google creates a URL shortener, but it's limited

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Lashiec:
Why can't Twitter and any other service using URL shorteners switch to something more sensible like, you know, those fancy brand new hyperlinks? Just saying ;D

Deozaan:
For SMS-length messager services like twitter, it's almost an absolute must, though.-zridling (December 17, 2009, 12:36 PM)
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That's what Long URL Please is for.
Replaces short urls with the originals so you can see where links actually link to.
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f0dder:
Why can't Twitter and any other service using URL shorteners switch to something more sensible like, you know, those fancy brand new hyperlinks? Just saying ;D-Lashiec (December 17, 2009, 07:03 PM)
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Because, in fairness, that makes the actual message longer than those ~160 characters. Dunno whether any device using Twitter is actually limited to a single SMS-length message, though :)

Lashiec:
Because, in fairness, that makes the actual message longer than those ~160 characters. Dunno whether any device using Twitter is actually limited to a single SMS-length message, though :)
-f0dder (December 18, 2009, 07:44 AM)
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No, that's what not I meant :)

I don't use Twitter, so maybe you can already do it, but AFAIK the only way to include links in your tweet is doing something like this:
 
* Check out Cody's brand new hat!!!: https://www.donationcoder.com/
But why didn't they do things like they're usually done in the rest of the Interwebs from the start?
 
* Check out Cody's brand new hat!!!
Yes, you may end up sending text longer than 160 characters, but the actual tweet is shorter.

f0dder:
Yes, you may end up sending text longer than 160 characters, but the actual tweet is shorter.-Lashiec (December 18, 2009, 09:23 AM)
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The length of the text the receivers read will only end up being those ~160 characters, yes, but I thought the point of twitter was that the entire message should only be ~sms-length?

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