Exactly. The service was used to distribute malware and it got blocked by google and co. There was a similar story last month about someone running a URL short

Exactly. The service was used to distribute malware and it got blocked by google and co. There was a similar story last month about someone running a URL shortener. It started being used to obfuscate links to porn and scams. Then it got blocked by twitter/facebook and that's the end of the road for the service.