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How come a company as big as Meta still uses bit.ly ?
by edweis 3y ago
How come a company as big as Meta still uses bit.ly ?
- nemothekid 3y agoWhat else would they use?
- 3pt14159 3y agoSomething like meta.com/our_own_tech_handles_this
- nemothekid 3y agoNot sure it's preferable to hire people at fb salaries to maintain a link shortener than just to use a reputable free one?
- transcriptase 3y agofb.com seems like a reasonable choice.
- Cthulhu_ 3y agoTheir own?
- huac 3y agotheir own shortener, e.g. fb.me, presumably
- geor9e 3y agoIronically it doesn't help to use link shorteners on twitter anyway - all URLs posted to twitter count as 23 characters. The hypertext is the truncated original URL string, and the URL is actually a t.co link.
- esafak 3y agoShorteners these days are for analytics, not shortening per se.
- esafak 3y agoBecause this is a marketing channel. They handle tracking of FB/IG messages by other means, intended for engineers.
- kmeisthax 3y agoNot only that, the announcement is on Twitter, a company that at least used to be their biggest competitor. Old habits die hard, huh?
- smcleod 3y agoYeah those links don't even work for me anymore as it's a tracking site.