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So.. it's click tracking. Big deal. The magic of HTML is that the link that's displayed (the original if shorter?) doesn't have to match the actual href. To us
by alttag 15y ago
So.. it's click tracking. Big deal. The magic of HTML is that the link that's displayed (the original if shorter?) doesn't have to match the actual href.
To use the zombo.com example above, why can't Twitter use the "shortener" to track redirects in the link and display the actual? <a href="http://t.co/?r=zombo.com>http://zombo.com</a> http://t.co/?r=zombo.com>http://zombo.com</a>
They're already doing something similar with elided URLs, why not with short ones?
I'm not familiar with the API--this of course assumes are tweets returned as html, not text.