Twitter Ecosystem: Short URLs
April 20, 2008 by Sachendra Yadav
Popularity of twitter is spawning support systems around it, latest in the line being short URLs.
We’re all familiar with TinyURL, but with only 140 character to work with there’s a need to shorten it as much as you can. Enter is.gd
BHC3 demonstrates via an example in his blog
Full URL: http://bhc3.wordpress.com/2008/04/05/friendfeed-rss-is-a-fantastic-discovery-tool/
- 82 characters
TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/6qhk4n
- 25 characters
is.gd: http://is.gd/7oc
- 16 characters
So there’s a pick-up of 9 characters via is.gd. Can be quite valuable on Twitter, eh?
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