Building a Self-Hosted URL Shortener with Cloudflare Workers
The Problem: Twitter’s 280-Character Limit When sharing technical blog posts on Twitter, I constantly hit the 280-character limit. Long URLs consume precious space that should be used for actual content. For example: F h A u t v l t a l p i s l U : a R / b L / l i e w a i m f t d o h e r v U b c T o o M x n : . t c e 1 o n 5 m t 5 / : p c o O h s n a t l r s y a / c b 1 t u 2 e i 5 r l s d c i h n a g r - a c c o t m e p r l s e t e - o i d c - l o g i n - f l o w - u r l s / ? u t m _ s o u r c e = t w i t t e r & u t m _ m e d i u m = s o c i a l & u t m _ c a m p a i g n = b l o g _ p o s t This leaves barely enough room for a meaningful tweet. Third-party URL shorteners like Bitly work, but they: ...