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Old Apr 16, 2016 | 12:12 pm
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Originally Posted by sbm12
I've been using Hootsuite for more than a year now. Regardless of the URL I paste in the composition box it is shortened on the server-side and consumes ~25 characters of the tweet. See attached showing 117 characters remaining with the URL for this thread pasted in.

AFAIK Twitter now manages link shortening, regardless of the client/API interface, using t.co links. What is displayed in the UI is not necessarily what the underlying URL in the tweet is.
This is true. But I guess I always considered ~25 characters to be too long; when you can have the same URL around ~16 characters. Perhaps, I am hashtag obsessed or always want the fewest characters for a link (in a tweet). (i.e. I want more characters for things other than links...)
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