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titleDid you click a short link instead of a longer link?

Users may choose to shorten their links, so that they could fit those links in for example, to fit into a 240-character Twitter post.  But  However, in most other instances, tiny links should be avoided, as character limits are usually not an issue, and you won't know where that tiny link leads until after you click it.

Please note one major exception – tiny links to Confluence pages.  This is an exception because users can tell where the link comes from; a tiny link from Confluence still begins with confluence.uwf.edu.  But with most other tiny links, users can't tell where the original link came from (e.g., https://bit.ly/32uPBBt ← this link is safe).

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