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No, it's really not. Please explain why this (my last tweet): "3x recommended dose of Vitamin D slashes cancer risk by 77%: http://is.gd/28Nbq http://is.gd/28
by webwright 17y ago
No, it's really not.
Please explain why this (my last tweet):
"3x recommended dose of Vitamin D slashes cancer risk by 77%: http://is.gd/28Nbq http://is.gd/28Nbq
is better than this:
"3x recommended dose of Vitamin D slashes cancer risk by 77%: <a href="url">2005 Academic Study</a>"
I can see why you'd URL shorten when pushing to SMS, but an actual anchor/href gives me the ability to mouse-over and see the target URL and the link isn't dependent on a 3rd party to work. No one can frameset the url without the linkers permission or shove ads into the experience.
- mattmcknight 17y ago"There's a plugin for that." http://url.ly/app/tools http://url.ly/app/tools [real URL!] I find the shorteners an annoyance. You can't fix the dependency problem. I wonder how they could increase SMS limits past 160 chars?
- a-priori 17y agoI wonder how they could increase SMS limits past 160 chars? That can't be done unless you change the underlying cellular protocol (e.g. the upcoming 3GPP LTE protocols). The length of an SMS is based on the capacity of one GSM frame.