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Twitter has announced that they are now shortening https links with their own t.co link shortening service on https.

The company had planned to start doing it earlier but the implementation took time and it is finally being rolled out.

A company developer announced:

As we announced awhile back, we’re going to begin wrapping HTTPS-based URLs with HTTPS-based t.co links, though a bit later than anticipated. If you’re already using the recommended GET help/configuration’s short_url_length_https and short_url_length_http values for calculating URL lengths, you shouldn’t notice any difference. Effectively at the current values, HTTPS-based URLs will account for 21 characters while standard HTTP-based t.cos will continue at their typical 20 character length.

Bitly has confirmed that they are working on a search engine that would show results popular on social networks.

The company is already one of the largest link shortening service provider in the world. Though recent developments at Twitter has somewhat changed things for them.

Twitter is now wrapping all links on their network through their own t.co link shortening service. However, bitly links posted by users are still routed through their bitly’s network.

The company is aiming to provide a search service that would show relevant results based on popular trends on the web.

It could become a real powerful real time search engine platform looking at the data they gather from the short links generated by their platform.