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You can only control your own shortened URL but you have no control when people re-tweet it and pass it through Bit.ly. Which then flags it as harmful. So bitl
by trezor 16y ago
You can only control your own shortened URL but you have no control when people re-tweet it and pass it through Bit.ly. Which then flags it as harmful.
So bitly, a URL-shortening service, is blocking other shortened URLs because they deem shortened URLs harmful? And here I thought the stupidity of twitter and it's ecosystem of useless URL-shorteners had an actual limit.
- mst 16y agoOnly in the sense of the number of characters provided to perpetrate said stupidity. tweet.im keeps tinyurl-ing my xrl.us URLs. The result is actually longer. I suspect the closest to a solution here is a "don't shorten this unless it'd be X% shorter as a result" type flag for shortening APIs and then beat client authors over the head until they all pass the flag. And then beat client users over the head until they all upgrade. And then ... er ... never mind. I think I'll go stick my head in an oven now.