Tag Archives: url shortening

Twitter’s URL shortening technique makes copy/paste difficult

By Colin Devroe | Published: November 24, 2009
Twitter, by default, uses Bit.ly to shorten URLs for use with SMS, the API, etc. But on its Web site Twitter shows you the original URL (or at least part of it) so that people know where they’ll be going if they click on the link. Or, at least that is why I think they [...]
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Why I’m not blocking the DiggBar, yet

By Colin Devroe | Published: April 15, 2009
If you haven’t heard of the DiggBar, and the hoopla it has created over the last week or so, allow me to fill you in. The DiggBar is a new feature of Digg.com, a social news Web site, that puts a tool bar of sorts on top of any page on the Web. This bar [...]
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Twitter should buy Bit.ly (or, Yes! URL shorteners DO suck)

By Colin Devroe | Published: April 7, 2009
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 [...]
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