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The <a> tag supports displaying human readable text in place of the link, Twitter could have supported that and not counted the actual link. But we all know th
by ehnto 3y ago
The <a> tag supports displaying human readable text in place of the link, Twitter could have supported that and not counted the actual link.
But we all know the real reason link shorteners get used by companies, tracking clicks for third parties so you can get sweet affiliate cash.
- zdragnar 3y agoThe original limitation was due to the fact that Twitter started as an SMS text blogging service. After they moved away from that, the character count limitation has never been a technical limitation.