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I think it should have a maximum length for the links in tweet, but not count them in length of tweet.

*Maximum length for the links so that users don't abuse it.

I agree, not being forced to use URL-shorteners would be wonderful.

I think 140 characters is a bit short for English, but I do not think that 280 characters would give us better content in the long run either.

There is not even a decent link shortener in twitter.com

What makes t.co non-decent?

I think what he meant, is twitter does not have an embedded link shorterner on the site but only if content is submitted via external links. Like HootSuite when submitting to FB or Twitter you can shorten a link while submitting the content. That would be a very welcomed feature for twitter in the long run.

Ah, I see. Yeah, I agree; I'd like to see t.co better integrated into the normal web UI, not just the link-sharing interface (twitter.com/share?url=...).

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