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You're looking at it backwards. Right now, people communicating on microblogging services end up having three things that need to be working for them to get th
by dlsspy 17y ago
You're looking at it backwards.
Right now, people communicating on microblogging services end up having three things that need to be working for them to get through:
1. The µblog
2. The URL shortener
3. The original site
Various URL shorteners might fall over for a bit, or any other number of stupid things.
In the wordpress example, they registered wp.me so they could shorten the URLs sanely: http://images.scripting.com/archiveScriptingCom/2009/08/16/mattmensch.gif http://images.scripting.com/archiveScriptingCom/2009/08/16/m...
If you support shortening, you reduce a dependency. You can still use tinyurl or bit.ly or whatever in this model, but if you don't, it'll be done for you.
- chrischen 17y agoThen why don't microblogging sites find a way to accomodate long URLs. Why do we have to start defining short (which is subjective) urls?
- dlsspy 17y agoThat's a fine suggestion, but it requires some out of band metadata. Remember, twitter is an SMS mailing list. You want to be able to send that data in a way it can be picked up from simple mechanisms like SMS messages.
- chrischen 17y agohmmm... I guess that's a good reason. But what other use is there besides SMS?
- trezor 17y agoPhones have been able to recieve SMSes longer than 140 characters for about a decade now. Limiting a service on the internet because 0.1% of the users want SMS notification on decade old phones is stupid and backwards.