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But twitter will only count it as two characters. (I guess.)

• pornel 12y ago
  Twitter doesn't pay attention to URL length any more. They will force all URLs through t.co even if that makes them longer.
  • Karunamon 12y ago
    I've found that it doesn't like to shorten certain things, though I haven't quite nailed down what "certain things" are. I tried linking a recent blog post I'd done, which is at least 30 characters (along the lines of http://website/really-neat-post-title http://website/really-neat-post-title), and when I pasted or typed it into the tweet, it wouldn't autoshorten and would consume those characters. I find myself using goo.gl a distressing amount of time on Twitter.
    • uptown 12y ago
      The added benefit of using Google's URL shortener with Twitter is that you can send those links by DM while others are blocked.
    • GrinningFool 12y ago
      The interesting thing about that is that twitter will still generally redirect it. As an experiment some time ago I grabbed a random sampling of URLs from twitter's limited firehose - and found that on average they spread the user's trail across no fewer than 4 redirects before the final destination was reached. Some as many as 7 or 8. I've stopped posting URLs to twitter, out of respect for my followers.