Pages Tagged “link shorteners”
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- How Link Shorteners Leave Holes in Your Social Media
Another problem I’ve noticed in my Twitter archive: Lots of URL shorteners and image hosts have shut down or purged their archives. Sure, bit.ly and is.gd and tinyurl and ow.ly are still around. But in the days before t.co, I used a lot of different Twitter apps that used different shorteners or image hosts. I […]
- Delicious, Twitter, and Linkblogging
Link-sharing site Delicious had a feature to auto-bookmark everything you post publicly on Twitter. Convenient, especially if you use Twitter for link sharing.
- New Plugin: Nice Links for Twitter Tools
The plugin ties into Twitter Tools and cleans up cryptic links, following redirects and adding readable titles when it builds up a digest.
- Why Link Length Matters
Twitter writes that link length shouldn’t matter, but the zillions of URL shortening services out there show that, for now, it does. But why? There are two main reasons to shorten* a link: There’s a technical limit, such as SMS message length or email line width. You expect people to manually enter the URL. Right […]
- The REAL Problem with Twitter
Twitter asks its users the wrong question, and it’s outgrowing the limitations of SMS messages.