Sams Teach Yourself TweetDeck in 10 Minutes

Lesson 7. Tweeting Links and Photos

In this lesson, you learn how to embed links to other websites and photos in your TweetDeck posts.

Embedding Shortened Links

It’s easy enough to include a link to another web page when you create a post with TweetDeck. All you have to do is enter the full URL of the page you’re linking to, including the http://, into your message, like this:

http://www.mywebsite.com/page.html

The problem comes when the page you want to link to has an overly long URL. Given the 140-character limitation of Twitter and other social networks, devoting a large number of these 140 characters to a URL is wasteful. In fact, some URLs can be longer than 140 characters, which would make it impossible to insert them into a tweet. ...