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From their help page: http://help.twitter.com/entries/109623

> "All links included in Direct Message notification emails currently pass through our link service and are converted to a http://t.co link. We've also begun testing this service for links in Tweets"

I'm curious whether they're going to outright put a blanket ban on "alternative" URL shorteners like they did with Twitter-based Ad services.

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Looks like they're going to wrap existing shortened URLs with t.co:

If you are already partial to a particular shortener when you tweet, you can continue to use it for link shortening and analytics as you normally would, and we'll wrap the shortened links you submit.

http://blog.twitter.com/2010/06/links-and-twitter-length-sho...

It is not a shortener. It is a small condom. That's what the .co stands for.

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