Tag: CHARACTERLIMIT

Twitter is famous for its quick 140-character bursts of information, but the new target number might be 120 characters, plus links. In a new post on the official Twitter blog, Twitter's Sean Garrett outlines the company's new philosophy that links shouldn't count against the character limit. To make that happen, Twitter's launching its own URL shortener, t.co, that will automatically be applied to ...

URL shorteners, while convenient, are bad for the web. They hide the true destination that they are pointing to, giving bad guys yet another tool in their arsenal, while conditioning web users to blindly trust the links they are clicking on. Further, as the debacle with tr.im showed us, URL shortening services aren't necessarily permanent. It's no coincidence that the rise in popularity of URL ...