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I doubt people are using URL shorteners because they're bumping up against twitter's 140 character limit. It has become the trendy thing to do, and most non-te
by aminuit 17y ago
I doubt people are using URL shorteners because they're bumping up against twitter's 140 character limit. It has become the trendy thing to do, and most non-technical users probably use it only because everyone else is. Anyone know where to find a large corpus of tweets? It would be pretty straightforward to do the analysis.
Additionally, why doesn't anyone talk about doing URL shortening on the CMS side? Sure the host portion of the URL might be a little longer than say 'bit.ly', but the remaining portion could be compressed. You could have a blog, news article, or whatever with an unobtrusive "twitter link" on the side. That way content owners still have some view into who is linking to their content.
- jonknee 17y ago> Additionally, why doesn't anyone talk about doing URL shortening on the CMS side? Sure the host portion of the URL might be a little longer than say 'bit.ly', but the remaining portion could be compressed. You could have a blog, news article, or whatever with an unobtrusive "twitter link" on the side. That way content owners still have some view into who is linking to their content. Some sites do this. I bought some shoes the other day on Zappos and noticed all their permalinks have a shortened URL ready. Example: http://www.zappos.com/product/126799/color/53739 http://www.zappos.com/product/126799/color/53739 Amazon should do this if for no other reason than most of their URLs are giant and unfriendly.
- madh 17y agoGoogle Maps should also do this.