It’s official. The Mayans were right. Life as we know it is about to end. Twitter is shortening your tweets by 2 characters if you hyperlink. All of those little “t.co” links they use to shorten URLs? They’re getting longer. With the links going from 20 characters to 22, you’ll now have only 118 characters to offer pithy commentary.
Let the gnashing of teeth commence!
Hereby multiplying the number of grammar crimes many-fold: Twitter Will Shorten Tweets W/Links by 2 Characters In 2013 http://t.co/PrUB4ODw
— Cheryl Katz (@cherylakatz) December 7, 2012
Economy must be bad, even Twitter's cutting RT Twitter Will Shorten Tweets W/Links By 2 Char's In 2013 http://t.co/SLKTiQdn via @carlfranzen
— Lucia Moses (@lmoses) December 7, 2012
Crisis intervention now! ?RT Twitter Will Shorten Tweets With Links By 2 Characters In 2013 http://t.co/wJgfZfYv via @zite
— Michelle (@mmwlawtaos1) December 7, 2012
Twitter reducing maximum length of tweets with links. On its face, seems ridiculous. –http://t.co/2CzHixQp
— Lauren Weinstein (@laurenweinstein) December 7, 2012
I DEMAND 142 CHARACTER TWEETS! RT @stefanjbecket: This is an outrage. t.co links are going from 20 to 22 characters. http://t.co/bozQlncp
— Amanda Lucci (@alucci) December 6, 2012
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Nooo! RT @stefanjbecket: This is an outrage. t.co links are going from 20 to 22 characters in February. http://t.co/IaZF8D2Q
— Amanda Lilly (@AmandaMLilly) December 6, 2012
Our favorite smart-aleck of the day?
NO I NEED THOSE CHARACTE MT @andrewphelps Oh come on. MT @stefanjbecket: t.co links going from 20 to 22 characters: http://t.co/9TP4WCYp …
— Adam Sternbergh (@sternbergh) December 6, 2012
Well done, sir!
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