Twitter URL Shortening – How to Avoid It

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I want to post an URL in Twitter, but I don't want it to be shortened – the domain is a 3 letter word so it doesn't even make sense to shorten it. However, when I am writing the tweet in the website I see the message "Link will appear shortened" and I don't find an option to disable that.

Best Answer

This is not possible. Twitter API will automatically shorten any URL.

_{Earlier, there was a way to go about disabling the URL wrapping - create a custom twitter app(example: a hosted dabr install) and disable URL shortening at the API settings. But now this option is no longer available}

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