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What's the use case for a URL shortener? I think the first time I heard about them, the pitch was to stop long URLs getting split over lines in Usenet messages;
by voyou 14y ago
What's the use case for a URL shortener? I think the first time I heard about them, the pitch was to stop long URLs getting split over lines in Usenet messages; then they became popular because of Twitter's 140 character limit. But not very many people use Usenet now, and Twitter shortens URLs itself, so I'm not sure what people are using URL shorteners for now.
- milliams 14y agoI see them in print newspapers and magazines to provide more information or sources.
- b6 14y agoI like them for sharing URLs on IRC. If they're too long, they can be hard to select in text clients like Irssi or WeeChat.
- andyhmltn 14y agoI made this one because I use it when posting articles. I think a small link looks a lot better than a large one. But I guess that's preference.