I use Bit.ly and Twitter a lot to post content here (as you well know). Kelson has come up with a nice Twitter Tools add-in that will take the Bit.ly links that get passed back in from Twitter for the daily archives and expand them into their original links (with original link titles).
That has the dual advantage of both expanding the link into something more visually meaningful, and of fixing the link to that original site. One of the philosophical drawbacks of Bit.ly is that if they ever go under (or, heck, even just have an outage), their mapping service between the the various Bit.ly links and what underlies them goes away, too. This solve that.
I’d like a few more options added in, but I’m sure that will come over time. So far (one day) it seems to be working.
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