[lucaspiller]

I've seen a similar thing with related services (mainly Google - although they appear to have removed it for a 'ping' now). I'm not exactly sure what causes it, but my browser gets stuck on "Waiting for t.co...". Refreshing the page just takes me back to the page I clicked the link on.

The fact that t.co don't have global servers probably doesn't help, in Asia and Australia ping times to t.co are 250ms+. Even in Europe it's over 100ms.

[a_bonobo]

I can confirm this - I've stopped clicking links in the official Twitter client on Android when I'm outside in Australia, Australian mobile Internet is already slow, combined with t.co's huge latency all links just time out.