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Why you don’t need a URL shortening service if you use Wordpress
I was in the mood for a long post title. Sue me.
My thoughts on URL shortening services are pretty public but that doesn’t mean that I don’t have a need for them. I prefer Bit.ly over any other URL shortening services that I’ve used to-date.
With Tr.im dying I thought that there was always the possibility [...]
Twitter replaces TinyURL with Bit.ly, will they buy it?
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 [...]
Twitter should buy Bit.ly (or, Yes! URL shorteners DO suck)
So the Internet is (was on April 3rd) ablaze with the talk of how bad URL shorteners are ever since Joshua Schachter, the guy that built and sold del.icio.us, jotted down his thoughts on them.
These facts are nothing new and, I’ll bet, do not allude those that built these services. But, they see a general [...]
Posted in Notes Also tagged internet, jason-kottke, joshua schachter, tinyurl, twitter, url shortening 9 Comments
Twitter’s URL shortening technique makes copy/paste difficult