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Since Twitter enforces a 140 character limit, long URLs are often shortened using any of many “tiny url providers” (TinyURL, tr.im, shorl…)

The problem with the tiny url’s is that you can’t see where they lead from looking at the address. A number of services have emerged to solve this problem, such as untiny and the Ubiquity command.

However, these are solutions are really just workarounds to a central of Twitter’s - and Twitter is stepping up to address it!

I just noticed that in Twitter search, they append an “expand link” right after tiny url’s. I would expect them to either add this option around their site, or optionally auto-expand tiny urls for you.

Screenshots:

After clicking the expand link:

Nice work Twitter!

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