I feel better about this than a commercial service I suppose.
But links should be what they are—the address of a page and not the product of a cloaking and tracking service that takes you to a page with added delay.
But links should be what they are—the address of a page and not the product of a cloaking and tracking service that takes you to a page with added delay.
- Don't post the link
- Post the link and let it get lopped off in the middle
- Post the link without adequate context surrounding it
- Create a shortened link that points to the original
Tweets and SMS can allow full-sized links while retaining character limits for UX reasons. It's almost 2020. Our networks can handle a few more bytes.
When presenting visually (such as outdoor advertising), users should be able to simply scan the link - either as text or QR code.
By the way, we were going just a few characters into the next message so for pricing / logging issues we decided on shortening our own URL.