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Short URLs aren't just about twitter. URL shortening is useful in a variety of situations, and tinyurl was widely used for years before twitter came along.
by carbon8 17y ago
Short URLs aren't just about twitter. URL shortening is useful in a variety of situations, and tinyurl was widely used for years before twitter came along.
- samj 17y agoIn addition to space constrained applications such as SMS (and artificially space constrained applications like Twitter) shortlinks are also required anywhere humans are required to remember and/or enter them - that is, when they are printed, recited over radio or displayed on televisions. This is a very important use case that people often ignore. Sam