There's no preview for this, so you find out too late. I think a proper short URL looks neater too: "http://t.co/x812ks1 http://t.co/x812ks1 A site about actio

There's no preview for this, so you find out too late. I think a proper short URL looks neater too: "http://t.co/x812ks1 http://t.co/x812ks1 A site about action figures" "http://action.figures.com/rid.. http://action.figures.com/rid... A site about action figures" The short URL may not look pretty, but at least regular Twitter users will quickly learn to process it as "some URL". The longer abbreviated one breaks that convention and by including some actual meaning, it gets in the way.