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Tr.im, bit.ly and Twitter - The REAL Story

• poutine 17y ago
  A lot different than most people here assumed in the discussion a couple days ago.
• joshu 17y ago
  Can someone summarize?
  • pclark 17y ago
    bit.ly struck a partnership with twitter, tr.im decided there weren't other markets for tiny url services, nor was it worth trying to compete on innovation vs bit.ly so decided to "sell" trim. Capitalizing on the "oh noes when tinyurl services die we lose links" they decided to announce closure for PR and slyly note "PS: we're for sale" But then everyone hated them, they got techcrunch'd and so on, probably got an ego boosting amount of traffic and thought they would compete ("with this traffic burst we'll convert x% and we'll be able to compete - because investors only care about traffic in a recession for early stage stuff!!!11). So they didn't want to give up whilst everyone was watching them and be "those guys" so they're stuck with the service. maybe. I didn't bother listening. TinyURL services are possibly a market where a monopoly is the best thing for it to be.
    • Semiapies 17y ago
      You're summarizing a podcast that you didn't bother listening to?