Highlights
- To the joy of millions of Twitter users, Twitter has released an automatic link shortening facility.
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.