According to Marshall Kirkpatrick of ReadWriteWeb Twitter has “crowned Bit.ly the King of all Short Links” and replaced TinyURL as the default URL shortening service that Twitter uses. (I’m cdevroe, btw)
Scaling Bit.ly to keep up with the demands of Twitter, since Twitter is growing at a remarkable rate, is an obvious concern. Will Twitter buy Bit.ly to help scale/fund it? I hope they do. Not only because I like Bit.ly – but because then I could say I told you so.
TinyURL has never interested me much. Their site design is horrendous, the URLs aren’t as short as others these days (we could bit.ly a TinyURL to make it shorter), and when glancing at tweets it looks too much like ‘TwitPic.com’ (many times I’ve clicked a TinyURL thinking I was going to see a photo).
I loved moourl.com for the longest time, but then bit.ly came along and allowed me to log in and track the URLs; cool!
Giddy up, Twitter!