Posts Tagged ‘link’

Twitter’s New Link Tracking is No Good

Twitter changed how links work recently, so now when you click a link the first thing that actually loads is something like:
http://twitter.com/link_click_count?url=STUFF
I don’t like it.
First off, it’s messier. Instead of clicking through normal links now we’re getting redirected for internal links. That’s weird.
Second, it puts another level of failure and slowness between users and the [...]