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Alex
Alex

Reputation: 3790

Does the Twitter API auto shorten URLs

I know this question has been asked before however the answers I found where a little old and I know that twitter has now made the t.co/xyz service manditory on all posts recently. I'm just wondering if when using the oAuth API service it will automatically shorten any url? Anyone know what the current process in play is? Do I still need to shorten the url pre posting?

Thanks very much

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1705

Answers (1)

Terence Eden
Terence Eden

Reputation: 14304

Yes. Even when using OAuth, all links will be wrapped in t.co short URLs. Even if the link is shorter than 20 characters!

See the post in the discussion groups.

There is also some documentation about recent and upcoming changes to t.co shortening (2012-04-12).

You can shorten the URL yourself if you want, but it will still get wrapped.

Upvotes: 1

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