Unwanted Link Shortening with t.co

[Mo]

Since switching to the new "Intents" linking, by URLs are being
shortened. I have a registered Twitter application, and a relatively
short URL already ( http://TagsBy.me ).

I'd like to continue using my own URLs, even if it means I have to
build a shortener with an even shorter domain. However, I'd like to
know what the rules/guidelines are that Twitter uses for overriding
links, since there are many exceptions that I see in my Twitter
stream.

[Jonathan Strauss]

Twitter is just wrapping your link in t.co. When it gets displayed in
Twitter, it will show the link on your domain as you passed it in.

[Mo]

I understand what's happening. The issue is that now my domain doesn't
appear in my tweets. It's a marketing issue. I'd like to know what the
workaround is, since one seems to exist for other link shorteners.

On May 18, 5:21 pm, Jonathan Strauss <jonat...@awe.sm> wrote:
> Twitter is just wrapping your link int.co. When it gets displayed in

[Scott Wilcox]

There is currently no options for turning url-wrapping off.

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[TJ Luoma]

On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Mo <mau...@moluv.com> wrote:
> I understand what's happening. The issue is that now my domain doesn't
> appear in my tweets. It's a marketing issue. I'd like to know what the
> workaround is, since one seems to exist for other link shorteners.

This is part of Twitter's move to take total control over their
platform. They can modify your content however they want to because
it's their sandbox, they just let the rest of us play in it.

TjL

[Scott Wilcox]

Pretty much, but it also provides them with analytics for URLs as well as the ability to stop malware sharing URLs in their tracks.

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[Mohan Arun]

On May 22, 12:00 pm, Scott Wilcox wrote:
> Pretty much, but it also provides them with analytics for URLs as well as the ability to stop malware sharing URLs in their tracks.

Apologies for the thread hijack, but
would there be a way to see which URLs have the highest clickthroughs?
(from the analytics for URLs shortened with t.co)

I am already aware of this:
http://urls.api.twitter.com/1/urls/count.json?url=http://twitter.com
but this requires an url to be passed as parameter.

- Mohan

[Rich]

There is no way to turn it off but if you are in control of displaying
the tweet as well, you can decode it with entities.