That’s a good point! Twitter’s tracking is almost perfect with their link shortener. I wonder if/when adblockers will take care of that as well (resolve the link once then cache it).
There's actually no need to resolve it. At least so far, they put the full url in the page source. I have a proof of concept extension already coded up for removing the redirects. I plan on adding a bunch of other sites (google, facebook, whatever else) and releasing it.
> Twitter’s tracking is almost perfect with their link shortener.
Perfect for measuring raw HTTP requests, sure, but if you post a link to a brand new, zero-follower account you'll still get a few dozen bots that are doing link analysis against the Twitter firehose (well, a random sampling of it).
