How to avoid URL encoding with bit.ly?

Question

I am using bit.ly linked with my Twitter Account to write tweet directly from their web site. Today I had the need to write an announce that mentions a site name, TF2Maps.net.

The problem is that bit.ly wants to convert it using its encoding but in this case I would prefer leave the name.

How can I avoid URL encoding in this case?

Answer 1

You need to click on Share Settings (Right under your tweet) then uncheck

Auto-shorten my long links (uncheck to manually shorten links).

Now you can post without having your link shortened.

Answer 2

Why making things complicated? Since you are doing it from bit.ly I guess they don't want that to happen. So for these special tweets, just use the Twitter directly. It's only 140 characters anyway.