Here's what it looks like on twitter:
When you mouse over the link, you'll see that it's actually a link to a shortened URL: http://t.co/QzpVyGb
If people retweet this post using the twitter's retweet function, the link will not break.
But, if people copy and paste the tweet, the link will break.
Like this:
Free Contact Cards from Kodak Gallery offonatangent.blogspot.com/2010/08/free-c… cc @KodakCBThe shortened link should be displayed in the tweet with something like a tool tip to display the full URL when you hover your mouse over the shortened link.
We're going to see lots of broken links on twitter.
Update 8/13/10:
Looks like twitter changed the display on the tweet, changing the URL to the shortened URL.
Free Contact Cards from Kodak Gallery http://t.co/QzpVyGb cc @KodakCB
stevegarfield
That's the same tweet as above, but now it has the shortened URL in it.
If they've changed to displaying the shortened URL everywhere, that's a good thing.
I'll keep an eye out.
