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they're primarily parasiting their users off another popular service (Twitter) source? not sure that's totally true. (maybe for tinyurl, which twitter uses aut
by aditya 18y ago
they're primarily parasiting their users off another popular service (Twitter)
source? not sure that's totally true. (maybe for tinyurl, which twitter uses automatically, but bit.ly?)
- patio11 18y agoHere's a list of their most popular links. http://twitter.com/bitlynow http://twitter.com/bitlynow Copy/paste each link into their search page, then click "info", and you'll see where the users are clicking them.
- aditya 18y agoNo - I'm just going to take your word for it :) Thanks! Edit: oh wait. In the top 10: Email Clients, IM, AIR Apps, and Direct Direct Traffic includes people clicking a bit.ly link from: - Desktop email clients like Microsoft Outlook or Apple mail - AIR applications like Tweetdeck or Twirhl - Mobile apps like Twitterific or Blackberry Mail - Chat apps like AIM - SMS/MMS messages It also includes people who typed a bit.ly link directly into their browser seems to be 10x of twitter.com, so it's not easy to say that most of that is API traffic from Twitter clients, then. So, then, no substantial evidence. I'm just curious whether it is a good assumption that twitter provides most of the traffic for all URL shortners, or not. Perhaps the people that run URL shortners can comment?