On: Bypass t.co, go straight to real links on Twitter

[Jonovono]

I remember also reading that it was a sort of control mechanism to deal with spam. If certain links are being spammed around they can easily cut them off (since they control the t.co.)

[jedberg → Jonovono]

They can also just remove the link from the system like reddit does. :) t.co makes it a little easier, but not much.