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Twitter and downstream services at times both add and strip URL redirects. (That's probably what the 'unwind' gnip process is doing: following redirects to find
by gojomo 13y ago
Twitter and downstream services at times both add and strip URL redirects. (That's probably what the 'unwind' gnip process is doing: following redirects to find the real destination.)
Are you sure all clicks from all clients would have visited your shortener, as opposed to skipping it using metadata about its final destination?
(It might be worth testing with a unique, 200-returning terminal URL.)
- hayksaakian 13y agoYou have a good point. Let me check the actual server logs. Shoot; the destination is a static site served with a rack app and Google Analytics does not have data yet (too old for real time, too new for normal). I'll have to check back later.
- dgunn 13y agoI would say you have it right here. Link shorteners really aren't a great way to track visitors to a link. You really need something like Google analytics or count how often your server actually served a resource.