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June 8, 2011 03:20 am GMT
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Twitter Now Automatically Shortens Links
In another step towards filling all its holes, Twitter has just announced its own link shortening service which starts rolling out today. The Twitter link shortening service will pass through t.co and shorten links to 19 characters, still allowing users to see what site the links are pointing towards. In an afterthought, Twitter users are still referred to third party apps like Bit.ly if they want analytics surrounding their links. [Insert well-trodden assertion that Twitter is breaking the hearts of its developer ecosystem here.]Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/6yIz8biNrp0/
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