Originally Posted by MFCT

Regarding the recent problem of posting links in Twitter. Where Twitter will convert a link to an image, display it with your tweet, and you can't turn that feature off:

So this is something Twitter will probably thwart eventually. But it works for now. If you generate the text of your link to include a zero-width space (Dec 8203 or Hex 200B) before each period in a link, it will prevent Twitter from meddling with your link in any way.

This has several downsides. Your link will display as raw text and won't be clickable (no analytics feedback) . If someone wants to open your link, they'll have to copy and paste it into a browser, where it will work normally. Thing is, who knows how many people are willing to take that extra step.

Twitter had always been a great resource for generating traffic, interest, and some conversions. Maybe this technique will help a bit.