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'They were born out of Twitter users need' While I'm sure it was a case of hands writing faster than your brain was thinking, wanted to pull you up on this giv
by corin_ 16y ago
'They were born out of Twitter users need'
While I'm sure it was a case of hands writing faster than your brain was thinking, wanted to pull you up on this given how many people do have that opinion. TinyURL is 8+ years old now (I think), certainly older than twitter. Twitter is just the reason that large(r) numbers of non-tech users have become familiar with them.
- kingofspain 16y agoIndeed. I remember first seeing seeing TinyURL's in magazines and newspapers. Saved a bit of space and typing over some of the more unwieldy links. Seemed like a good idea for that, though I was unlikely to trust them online until Twitter all but 'forced' me!