Microblogging site Twitter has finally fulfilled users' longtime wish. The company has introduced an automatic URL shortner. A major complaint that many users had with Twiter has been that its 140-letter cap often makes it impossible to include long URLs in tweets. This forced users to use URL shortening services such as bitly.
Announcing the new feature on its blog the company said, "Today, we're releasing something that many of you have been asking for – automatic link shortening on Twitter.com."
As to how it will work? "Just paste a link of any length into the Tweet box on Twitter.com. After you've composed your Tweet and you hit the "Tweet" button, we'll shorten the link so that it only takes up 19 characters," said the company in the blog.
As for the users who want analytics for their links? "You can continue to use your favorite third-party link shortening services," says the company.
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