@feditips also if t.co goes down - all links in your tweets will be rendered useless.

@feditips another reason not to use Twitter, even if you care a little about privacy.

@feditips Also, routing through this t.co shortener takes several seconds, more than doubling the time it takes to load the actual page.
It's only a minor inconvenience, but when it comes at the "benefit" of being constantly spied on it becomes clear whether the interests of the platform leans more towards the users or completely towards those surveillance-hungry systems.

@feditips And all those links on Twitter break when t.co is down.

@feditips These are used to get statistics. The lack of this feature being built-in Mastodon is a big put-off for a number of outreach activities. There are some solutions, like https://linklyhq.com/, but they add so much time that basically noone bothers.

@feditips The fun part is that t.co links are barred here at the office along with bit.ly and other url shorteners. A bit of a pain, but not one I'm fighting.