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It's another example of artificial scarcity, a phenomenon that is prevalent in many aspects of our society. Twitter and mobile carriers have gone to great leng
by dstein 16y ago
It's another example of artificial scarcity, a phenomenon that is prevalent in many aspects of our society. Twitter and mobile carriers have gone to great lengths and scales to artificially inflate the value of a byte of data.
- tgrass 16y agoThe economist in me loves this explanation. Any articles on it?
- dstein 16y agoNo, it's my personal interpretation of the demand for short URLs. But there were lots of articles when they started jacking the prices of SMS: http://gthing.net/the-true-price-of-sms-messages http://gthing.net/the-true-price-of-sms-messages Twitter is basically the same idea but applied to blog posts, and that is what created the market for short URLs.