DConf 2013 Day 1 Talk 4: Writing Testable Code in D by Ben Gertzfield

[Adam D. Ruppe]

On Wednesday, 15 May 2013 at 23:16:02 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> detect URLs and not count them towards the total msg length, or
> something else?

This is basically it. When you post a link to twitter, they 
detect the url and rewrite it into t.co/whatever shortlink on 
their end. Then that is used in the message and counts toward the 
length instead of the original full link.