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Shane Curcuru replied on July 24, 2009 14:25 to the question "View only unread messages in thwirl" in Seesmic:

Would be a very useful feature, especially as myriad other third-party twitter clients are coming out with great features and clean UIs.

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Shane Curcuru asked a question in Twitter on July 24, 2009 12:51:

How do I get Twitter to NOT shorten my URLs?
How can I force either twitter's website, API, or various clients to NOT shorten URLs in a tweet?

I've heard of a 30 character limit, but that's not reliable - there are plenty of tweets that sometimes have full URLs, even over 30 chars, and some that don't. I've seen people RT messages where sometimes the URL is normal, and sometimes shortened, and it seems random which way is which. It doesn't seem related to message length, either.

Why, oh why, do you do this randomly to me, Twitter? Otherwise, you're great, but you're really failing on this one. Well written URLs often have meaning when read by themselves: always (randomly) covering this up with the latest "cool" shortener is a disservice to users.