The interesting thing is that they're passing on the simple referrer that you'd expect. In other words, instead of the referrer looking like:
http://twitter.com/link_click_count?url=http%3A%2F%2Fadjix.com%2Fsx4d&linkType=web&tweetId=3696834541&userId=-1&authenticity_token=8c678e082a5ee88d47f03b05cf6f6887b8903acd
It simply looks like:
http://twitter.com/joeMoreno
This is very clean for link tracking websites like Adjix which track clicks by IP address and referrer:
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPUp9JOOhXUB6KVUWtApdGmq3jljd92pRCK0HAeUUnCLMVQI-TSkabETv1mnaXSPrUj75XraSVYtoXnR3YGUdCEyw-ymXH6PhyphenhyphenHTy4fkNJpxMW8hNzRXqQb5aanCmvSpHxHa4G6cqflryL/s400/Picture+63.png)
Update: Just discovered a clear downside - when the Twitter website is slow, clicking on these links are painfully slow since you have to first be redirected by Twitter's servers.
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