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Twitter also had link shorteners to deal with, a quirk of their platform. Not only were they not collecting usage data, but they were giving a big chunk of it t

• jedberg 12y ago
  That's a fair assessment. We banned link shorteners from reddit pretty early on, so we didn't have to deal with that.
  • thisishugo 12y ago
    Were it the case in 2005 that the type of analytics bit.ly and t.co enable were nearly as big money as they are now do you think you would have implemented a redd.it or similar shortener of your own?
    • jedberg 12y ago
      They actually had redirection in 2005. We turned it off sometime in 2007/8 when it started breaking, right when bit.ly and the other shorteners (and the business around them) were taking off. And actually, there is a redd.it link shortener. Every link has a corresponding redd.it link. :)