Twitter has started offering automatic shortening of long URLs, so they can fit within the 140-character limit of the micro-blogging service. Earlier, it was required to go to a third-party URL-shortening service such as bit.ly to do the same.
URL-shortening converts a long URL into a URL just a few characters long. In this shortened form, it is easy to post as a Twitter message. The new URL-shortening feature in Twitter, automatically shortens any URL you type as a tweet, into a 19-character URL starting with t.co. The difference between this service and others is that you will still view the first few characters of the original long URL instead of the shortened URL so that people can know about the site they will visit when they click on the link. But you can be sure that the URL is shortened because you can seemingly post messages longer than 140 characters, which would not be possible on Twitter.
While this service has now been built into Twitter, people may continue using any other third-party service for the same.
URL-shortening built inside Twitter
URL-shortening converts a long URL into a URL just a few characters long. In this shortened form, it is easy to post as a Twitter message. The new URL-shortening feature in Twitter, automatically shortens any URL you type as a tweet, into a 19-character URL starting with t.co. The difference between this service and others is that you will still view the first few characters of the original long URL instead of the shortened URL so that people can know about the site they will visit when they click on the link. But you can be sure that the URL is shortened because you can seemingly post messages longer than 140 characters, which would not be possible on Twitter.
While this service has now been built into Twitter, people may continue using any other third-party service for the same.
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