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@jalcine @stefan @ali @anildash yeah the original good-faith justifications were:

- save characters in SMS messages
- you can put a shortlink in a presentation and people can write it down or type it into their mobile browser (this was back when QR codes were considered kind of a laughable non-starter technology)

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Anil Dash

@darius @jalcine @stefan @ali this is right for the broader category of link shorteners, but Twitter made their first-party (and masked in their clients) with abuse mitigation as one specific motivator, along with metrics tracking for advertisers.

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