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They keep listing bit.ly's monopoly by way of Twitter. But there is a better solution to the whole URL shortening issue, how about Twitter assigned a fixed leng
by thisduck 17y ago
They keep listing bit.ly's monopoly by way of Twitter. But there is a better solution to the whole URL shortening issue, how about Twitter assigned a fixed length to URLs. So a url in your tweet is say 5 or 6 characters. And it always converts to ">link" (that's 5 characters).
Done, the URL shortening destroying the internet problem is solved. We've had URL shorteners forever, they've only become an issue because of Twitter. Twitter should just do away with it all.
- stingraycharles 17y agoStop making sense! The only solution would be for Twitter to acquire Bitly and their complex code base, how else are the inflated prices going to be justified ? http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/30/if-bitly-is-worth-8-million-tinyurl-is-worth-at-least-46-million/ http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/30/if-bitly-is-worth-8-mil...