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Twitter Adopts TinyURL

Started by Nick O'Neill · 10 months ago

I’m not sure if I’m late to the game on this one. It appears that Twitter has now adopted the TinyURL as a method for shortening all URLs posted to their site. I went to go post a link to my new posting on AllFacebook and it was automatically shortened by Twitter. [...%5 ... Continue reading »

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  • Dan Lester

    1 year ago

    I've read a couple of blog posts over the last few days indicating that Twitter is using TinyURL's API - and discussing whether Twitter should just make their own URL-shortener rather than relying on an outside service.

    But I don't see why they need a URL-shortener at all (one that acts as a forwarder, anyway). Why can't the API just accept links directly without it counting towards the 140-character limit? Or they can charge us 20 characters per link if they insist; and display URLs as "http://www.socialtimes.com/2008..." or just as hyperlinks around words if possible.

    I 'get' the 140-char limit, but having us worry about how to enter URLs, and whether or not the forwarding will work - not to mention our recipients having no idea where the link is going... Well, I think the whole thing is an unecessary limitation!
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  • Jesse Stay

    1 year ago

    The TinyURL integration has been around for at least several months now. It only shortens urls above a certain character limit, but my urls have been shortened by Twitter for quite awhile now. Also, if you use Snitter, there's a feature in it that will use snurl.com, an even shorter url, to shorten your links.
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