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Probably not. The only place they're really warranted is on Twitter, so if Twitter did it themselves that would go a long way. There is the whole URL masking an
by Volt 17y ago
Probably not. The only place they're really warranted is on Twitter, so if Twitter did it themselves that would go a long way. There is the whole URL masking annoyance as well, so ideally Twitter would support long URLs, but that might not happen because of the 140 character SMS restriction.
A federated protocol seems a little much for this one service which can handle the issue themselves, IMO.
- jacquesm 17y agoFor plenty of fora they're handy as well, then there's IRC Another good reason to have them is to be able to spell them for somebody over a phone line.
- anirbas 17y agoI've also noticed a local free paper (Metro) using tinyurl links in its web section.
- bjelkeman-again 17y agoTwitter should really, really provide a separate field for URLs. This would solve this whole thing. What is the point of an SMS with a shortened URL if you have no internet access? To be able to access the web page you need web access. If you have web access then you can get at the longer URL in the web interface or via Twitteriffic etc.