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Other than for twitter I don't see the reason for them really. Tinyurl was around from 2002, but was not heavily used until Twitter used it.
by rythie 17y ago
Other than for twitter I don't see the reason for them really. Tinyurl was around from 2002, but was not heavily used until Twitter used it.
- scottjackson 17y agoI occasionally find them useful outside of Twitter. In my experience, some applications (email clients, etc) don't handle/parse really long links (Google Maps links or ugly eBay auction URLs, for example) very well, so giving someone an is.gd link to a hideously long and complicated URL is usually easier for me.