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>>xslowz+(OP)
Worth pointing out that t.co has always been an instance of an annoying and seemingly unjustified practice I named "nonsemantic redirect". Rather than legitimately redirecting using an HTTP Location header, it instead is an HTML page with a META refresh tag on it.

You don't see this with curl/wget because they use user agent sniffing. If they don't think you're a browser they _will_ give you a Location header. To see it, capture a request in Firefox developer tools, right click on the request, copy as CURL. (May need to remove the Accept-Encoding tag and add -i to see the headers).

>>hlanda+Se
Could you explain what the intended/expected outcome is for this? What is accomplished by doing that?

>>Shamel+Fs
Crawlers and tools will get the right location http header but browsers and users will get the delay.