Twitter.com Now Gives You At Least 7 Extra Characters When You Tweet A Link

Update: Twitter does not remove 7 characters from its shortened links. Instead, it converts all links to t.co before shortening, and calculates characters based on the t.co URL (which will always be 20 characters), regardless of what it displays in your tweet. Thanks to @WebTrawler for alerting us to this.

Wow, this is pretty neat. It looks like if you use Twitter.com to shorten your links (which is only available on the #NewTwitter), you will potentially get a handful of extra characters.

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