Udo's Techblog

Twitw.at shortens URLs only when necessary
Date: 2009-05-11 05:05:22

Many people have argued about the evilness of URL shorteners. Among the many points of concern was the general practice that URLs get compressed even if there are enough characters left in your Tweet to display it fully and uncorrupted.

Twitw.at is a Twitter-based URL tool that takes this to heart: if you still got room in your 140 characters, twitw.at will insert the full, original URL instead of the shortened one. Twitw.at also does a lot of other things, because it allows users to publish content pages under the short URLs it creates and people can even have a discussion on these pages!

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