User blog comment:Brandon Rhea/Why Social Media is Important For Communities/@comment-168424-20160604002134/@comment-5558012-20160604003940

I've read before from Twitter that link shorteners do nothing. All URLs are given the same character count. I've also read that Twitter's considering removing character limitations completely. I don't think that's a great idea overall. The limitation is a nice way to force you to get to the point and how many people want to read a paragraph tweet?