Proper linking in Twitter

I know this sounds like an amazing topic! Yes, sarcasm. But it is something that is important. I have noticed that some tweets have links that look like this: "Go see me @mysite.com/page and see my new pics!"  Usually you I am seeing this is the site URL is the same as your Twitter handle. 



Seems fine right? The problem is, this is not a link. By adding the twitter tag to the URL (@twittername) you break the link. So now when people click, it goes to that Twitter profile and not your website. When you tweet a link you want to make sure that it actually creates a hyperlink, ie. a URL you can click. 



-You do not need http:// in your link. 

- You do not need www 

-You DO need it to be a complete URL with no gaps (ie. mysite.com/page ) 



If your ULR is long, you can use link shortners such as bit.ly, owl.ly, tiny.url, goo.gl to shorten the length of your tweet. Ones like bit.ly even allow you to cusomeize the link.