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Twitter Extending Length of Shortened Links

Users who include links will have two less characters to express themselves with

Reason Staff | 12.10.2012 3:00 PM

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Twitter will increase the character length of shortened links in February, further encouraging its users to communicate with an economy of phrase.

"We'd like to share some upcoming changes to our t.co link wrapper with the ecosystem," said Jason Costa from Platform at Twitter announced on Twitter's developer blog Thursday.

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