Sending links of your web site. Many people use Twitter to share online resources with their community. You identify the online resource by its web address or URL (uniform resource locator).
Most web addresses are very long, more than 25 characters, and sometimes more than 100 characters. Within a tweet, a web address takes up valuable space with only 140 characters to use.
How Twitter Handles Long Web Addresses Twitter realizes that web addresses eat away characters that you could use for your message. When you enter a long web address, Twitter does one of the following:
*Displays only the first 25 characters and allows the link to work (truncates the link).
*Converts the link using TinyURL.
The rules for this seem to be changing, but if you paste in a very long web address, Twitter sometimes replaces it with a TinyURL (shortened) web address.
Shortening Tools There are many free services that people use to shorten web addresses to use in tweets. You use these services while crafting your tweet and insert the shortened web address yourself.
http://tinyurl.com/
http://budurl.com/
http://is.gd/
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