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 h

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