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Hugene - 2:40 pm on Nov 25, 2009 (gmt 0)


Why preserve the URL shortening, when the valuable info is the actual target URL? Why not de-short the short URLs in the fly and keep the long ones in the archive? After all the archive does not need to follow the message length rules of Twitter, its just a copy of Twitter.

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