

To learn more, see our help page on Twitter's Link Service Note: Twitter's link service ( ) is only used on links posted on Twitter and is not available as a general shortening

After you’ve entered the first 13 characters of a URL, a message will appear at the bottom of the Tweet box, letting you know that the.Start typing or paste a long URL into the Tweet box.Whenever you post a link in one of your Tweets, it will automatically Will appear as a shortened version of the original URL. 2 YouTube URL has been assigned a t.co link ID, but the link Let you know that the link will be shortened.įig. This is what posting a long URL looks like now:įig.1 After 13 characters of a URL are entered, a message appears to This is what posting a long URL used to look like: (example: will take up 19 characters in your TweetĮven though its URL is only 16 characters long.) Note: If you enter a URL shorter than 19 characters into the Tweet box, our system will still "shorten" it to 19 characters.If you want to keep using your favorite link shortening service, you can continue to do so.You no longer have to worry about fittingĪ long link into the 140 character limit! With Twitter’s new link-shortening feature, you can now paste a link of any length into the Tweet box on and it will be.

Having trouble fitting a link into just 140 characters? See this help article on Twitters Link Shortening service. It now tries to leave URLs as you posted them so that users can easily see where the link is going rather than all links being It does work, they have just changed the way it is implemented.
