No, 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.ne

No, 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.