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		edanm on May 9, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Bit.ly is Harmful to Your Reputation I think Twitter should just not count URL's towards the 140 characters. All URL's should count as one character.

romland on May 9, 2010 [–]

How long before all tweets are in fact bogus links, you think?

Hexstream on May 9, 2010 | [–]

If someone spews lots of bogus links in your tweets wouldn't you unfollow them? If every twitter user starts spewing lots of bogus links wouldn't you stop using twitter?

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