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Actually... https://dev.twitter.com/docs/tweet-entities https://dev.twitter.com/docs/tweet-entities The tweet response contains the full link.

• lloeki 14y ago
  Interesting. So, why is (apparently) everyone — including Twitter — sending us through t.co? Example here[0] where you can see Twitter displays "mlkshk.com/r/K29L.jpeg" in the tweet, downright lies to you when hovering over it with "http://mlkshk.com/r/K29L.jpeg http://mlkshk.com/r/K29L.jpeg while the real href is http://t.co/fqxnG84t http://t.co/fqxnG84t. So, WWW broken. [0] https://twitter.com/xkcdrss/status/255158017253838848 https://twitter.com/xkcdrss/status/255158017253838848
  • gjulianm 14y ago
    I imagine that Twitter sends you through t.co for tracking and analytics purposes. But a lot of Twitter clients just send you to the full URL. (By the way, I have to check if Twitter forbids bypassing t.co shortened URLs in third party clients). EDIT: As I supposed, the display requirements say that the clients should send the user through t.co https://dev.twitter.com/terms/display-requirements https://dev.twitter.com/terms/display-requirements
    • jaggederest 14y ago
      And that's why we should be mad at twitter. Sorted.