[briansmith]

It is an excuse.

At most, they need to shorten the links only for SMS; they don't need to shorten them for the API or for the website (as they've just demonstrated).

[coderdude]

I can click on links that come in via SMS on my Droid. Why kill that emerging functionality?

Edit: I completely read what you said incorrectly. My response must make no sense.

[ars]

Next time, just delete the post.