I remembered a few weeks ago that Mashable mentioned that Facebook Unlinks Your Twitter Links. I didn’t think much of it as I saw that this was fixed shortly after this post went live and mostly forgot about it until this past week. I was trying to send a few friends a message and used Bit.ly to shorten my URL as it was a rather long one for the message. I hit send and the system just stalled. At first I thought maybe Facebook was acting up and the system was going a little slow as this was weird. I keep trying a few different times and nothing happened.
I left Facebook and came back a few hours later to try again and it happened. That’s when I looked at my message and noticed my Bit.ly link and thought it might be the issue. I switched in the longer URL and pow it was fixed. I could have sworn this was fixed as I searched around profiles of friends and saw that shorten URLs were all working and hyer linked. However, it seems that the issue is still happening when you try to send a message to a friend. Facebook could be doing this as a smap procasion as well but I don’t think that is it. I hope to see this change in the future.
