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These Url shorteners became popular because of Twitter. Twitter should handle links differently (e.g. not count Urls against the 140 char limit).

• jorgeortiz85 17y ago
  SMS doesn't care what kind of characters you're sending.
  • TweedHeads 17y ago
    SMS can't click on links either, so just send the word LINK and get done with it.
    • natrius 17y ago
      You can click on a link in a text message even on my dumbphone.
      • nir 17y ago
        Why not just put a URL shortener on the SMS interface, where it doesn't matter much if the shortener service dies anyway, and leave the original URL on the web interface.
• slig 17y ago
  twitter should have their own url shortener.
  • wmeredith 17y ago
    I believe they do and it's called bit.ly...
• tlrobinson 17y ago
  Ironically bit.ly thinks tr.im is spam: http://bit.ly/2JXXZ http://bit.ly/2JXXZ
  • goodkarma 17y ago
    I thought that was pretty ironic too
  • joshu 17y ago
    Most systems HAVE to mark shorteners as spam, given their use. Can you think of reasonable and serious reason to shorten another shortener?