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Twitter introduces link-shortening mechanism

By Sahil Mohan Gupta | Updated: 15 June 2012 17:12 IST
Twitter introduces link-shortening mechanism
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  • To the joy of millions of Twitter users, Twitter has released an automatic link shortening facility.
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To the joy of millions of Twitter users, Twitter has released an automatic link shortening facility.

A major grouse against Twitter has been the 140 character limit that makes it impossible to post a full web link.

Users had to use link-shortening sites like bit.ly. Twitter client users were luckier as popular clients such as TweetDeck always had an in-built link shortened.

The new in-built twitter link shortener uses only 19 characters instead of the standard 20 characters, which also works as an advantage for Twitter users.
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Further reading: Bitly, Link-shortner, Tweetdeck, Twitter
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