Apple previously turned to the t.co URL shortening service for Ping tweets but Apple has now switched over to their iTun.es URL. Apple already owns iTun.es and purchased it back in December of 2006. The iTun.es domain name is now also used as a domain link shortener for iTunes URLs on Twitter. Now when you select the “Share on Twitter” drop-down option for a song in iTunes, the iTuens link is truncated to iTun.es to cut down on the character length of your tweet.

This change however does not apply to third-party Twitter Clients:

It’s also interesting to notice that third party clients like Tweetie for Mac and Weet for iPhone don’t use itun.es but show Twitter’c t.co links instead. The itun.es links are visible to everyone in iTunes and Twitter.com.

[Source: MacStories]

Authors: _GadgetNews

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