But the displayed URL is truncated with an ellipsis at the end. The OPs URL is likely long enough to trigger that. Sometimes a long URL is all you want to share, but that is now impossible to do. A tweet saying "http://hotchickswithstubbedtoesmakingsexfaces.com/ exists" is a decent tweet, but a tweet saying "http://hotchickswit... exists" isn't as good. And sure, you can mouseover to see the full link, but that's balls.