Only 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.

Only 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.