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I remember also reading that it was a sort of control mechanism to deal with spam. If certain links are being spammed around they can easily cut them off (since

I remember also reading that it was a sort of control mechanism to deal with spam. If certain links are being spammed around they can easily cut them off (since they control the t.co.)

jedberg 12y ago
They can also just remove the link from the system like reddit does. :) t.co makes it a little easier, but not much.