Originally Posted by
baccarat_king
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...)
Even if you self-shorten to 16 characters it'll be the 23-25 in Twitter because of the t.co system.