When one posts a link on Twitter, one only has 140 characters available. This has resulted in an increase in demand for link shortening services.

Whenever I can on Twitter, I try to use the actual URL of the post instead of a shortening service. Two reasons:

1. People can then see the URL directly and know what they are clicking on. It also gives some branding to the domain name.
2. If I search for that domain using Twitter search, I can see what has been tweeted of that domain.

So this is the code that you need to remember:

What’s that 1234? That’s the number of the post. If you go to the Admin section of your WordPress blog, you will see the number of the post when you hover with your mouse over the Edit button of the post. As an example, this is the link to this particular post:

It’s a good idea to memorize that ?p=POST_NUMBER so you can use it in a hurry some day when you want to tweet something with the original URL, and you don’t have much time.

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