I've been frustrated by short URLs in my Twitter feed too. So frustrated, in fact, that I wrote an app to "peel" them. It's a Chrome extension that shows you wh

I've been frustrated by short URLs in my Twitter feed too. So frustrated, in fact, that I wrote an app to "peel" them. It's a Chrome extension that shows you where the link is going before you click. Google App Engine fetches page headers on your behalf and gives you back the real link. It's called LinkPeelr, and you can check it out here: http://linkpeelr.appspot.com http://linkpeelr.appspot.com