Twitter Saves TinyURL
To pass a link via Twitter uses up valuable resources (140 chars or fewer). Consequently, many users turn to URL shrinking services such as TinyURL. It looks like Twitter may have stopped the fall in TinyURL's popularity:
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So what led to the spike in tinyurl's use starting in December 2006? I knew about it long, long before then.
Posted by: mph | August 14, 2007 at 07:29 AM
hm, amazing what one site can do (if twitter's popularity is really the cause of the rise :)
Posted by: nathan | August 14, 2007 at 10:15 AM
To clarify: in many cases, Twitter does the tinyurl transformation automatically. Other shortening services (urltea, etc) are deliberate, manual decisions.
Posted by: Garrick Van Buren | August 14, 2007 at 10:17 AM
Zoho has a new service,
Zoho Viewer
http://viewer.zoho.com/
that allows users (no registration required) the chance to upload and share docs and also get a relatively short url.
At this point, 15 file types can be uploaded and shared. available.
Example:
http://viewer.zoho.com/docs/oaab3ae
and files can also be downloaded, embedded, exported to a diff format, etc.
Posted by: garyprice | August 14, 2007 at 06:59 PM
PayPerPost (http://www.preblogging.com/payperpost.php) also uses their services to include javascript on peoples sites.
Posted by: Becky | August 16, 2007 at 08:04 AM