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Here's my question: If Twitter is replacing all links with their t.co AND including the full URL in the API, why doesn't the API just put the full URL in most "

by ROFISH 16y ago

Here's my question: If Twitter is replacing all links with their t.co AND including the full URL in the API, why doesn't the API just put the full URL in most "full" versions (web, RSS, API) and only use the shorturl on extreme bandwidth situations like SMS (or arguably a very compressed mobile API.) It will break the holy 140 characters, but as you said, the reason for the shortener is because the 140 limit.

pierrefar 16y ago
Having both is very good. Look at what Backtype does with their Twitter search API. The HTML of each tweet will have its links be: <a href="FULL_URL">SHORT_URL</a> I think that's perfect because I know which URL shortener was used and can follow up if needed (e.g. check the bit.ly analytics). What you're proposing would support exactly this scenario, and as a marketer of my web apps myself, I like. But their ToS changes the OP mentioned go exactly against that, and I don't like.