All Links 20 Characters Or More Are Now Being Shortened With Twitter's "t.co"

Like Bit.ly? Unfortunately, it might be going the way of Twitpic and the dinosaurs soon, if Twitter has anything to do with it.

Today officially marks the day that all links on Twitter which are greater than or equal to 20 characters will be automatically shortened using t.co, Twitter’s own URL shortener. And by automatic, we do mean automatic – you don’t have a say in this whatsoever.

If you’ve noticed your Twitter timeline filling up with t.co

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