Twitter Adopts TinyURL

I’m not sure if I’m late to the game on this one. It appears that Twitter has now adopted the TinyURL as a method for shortening all URLs posted to their site. I went to go post a link to my new posting on AllFacebook and it was automatically shortened by Twitter. This is something that many users have been calling for including Jeremiah Owyang who has made a twitter the other day asking if this should become a default for the system.

It looks like Twitter was listening because now long URLs are automatically shortened. I’m a little confused though because seconds before I posted my tweet, another user posted a full URL to another site and it wasn’t automatically converted. Have you noticed anything similar? It appears to have just been turned on because there are a number of other users who have full URLs appearing.

This only took place from within the Twitter website. When I use the Twhirl application that I previously reviewed, I end up shortening the url via snurl.org. Am I going crazy here? Also, why am I spending so much time Twittering?

Update
In testing my theory, not all URLs are shortened. They must surpass a certain length. Let me know if you figure out the magical url length that is automatically shortened.

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