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Bitly exists because of Twitter and SMS character limits.

• tenacious_tuna 4y ago
  I run into similar problems in a corporate context. Being able to quickly tell someone "the provisioning portal is at corp.short/provision" is easily 10x more useful than "go look in the wiki for the link"
  • reilly3000 4y ago
    See also: golinks
• extra88 4y ago
  I don't know how long this has been true but all links in tweets are replaced with Twitter's own link-shortener links (t.co). No matter how short your link is, in a tweet it will consume 23 characters. https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/how-to-tweet-a-link https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/how-to-tweet-a-lin...
  • indymike 4y ago
    This happened after bit.ly and other shorteners started to have great financial success. Ecosystem annexation at it's best...