I had never noticed before but it looks like the same thing happens for us, so you aren't alone Nick.

Just to update this one, I'm told the request is now on the development schedule for a Page Tracker release next year.

They're actually pretty easy to setup and allow your tweets to display much more information when a reader interacts with them.

Give it a try when you have 30 minutes free: http://docs.townnews.com/kbpublisher/How-do-I-set-up-Twitter-cards_8635.html

That is just how Twitter does it. It displays the full text of the original URL, but if you mouse over it you'll see that it is really linking through the t.co service. I do not think there is a way to change this behavior on Twitter.

Do you have Twitter Cards setup for when a user expands a tweet?

Thanks Aaron.

Rebecca, all links posted on Twitter are automatically shortened using t.co. You can read more details here: https://support.twitter.com/articles/78124

This way every link posted only takes up 23 or 24 characters no matter the actual lenghth of the original URL.

Is the slide deck from this webinar avaialble to download?

Haha, I just came to post this feature request after the webinar yesterday and see I basically wrote the same thing a few months ago.

But since I already typed it...

A feature request based off yesterday’s webinar.

It would be great if the Social Broadcast tools could have some scheduling based fine tuning. A few off the cuff ideas:

• Time between broadcasts: e.g. Don’t push broadcasts faster than every X minutes. Queue up additional broadcasts for assets with similar start times and then push them every X minutes to social. (The stories will be live on the site, but social won’t get broadcast right away.)

• Social Broadcast blackout windows: e.g. Don’t push broadcasts between the hours of 12:00 AM and 6:00 AM. Any assets that go live on the site during this blackout window would be queued up and then sent starting at 6 AM.

Let me know what y’all think.

That does makes sense, thanks again Nick.

Great answer Nick. Thanks for your help.

Unfortunately Town News support is telling me that customers are not allowed to have access to that interface. So of course, I've gotta ask, how'd you get it?

Any thoughts here Christine?