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:

Comments

[mph]

So what led to the spike in tinyurl's use starting in December 2006? I knew about it long, long before then.

[nathan]

hm, amazing what one site can do (if twitter's popularity is really the cause of the rise :)

[Garrick Van Buren]

To clarify: in many cases, Twitter does the tinyurl transformation automatically. Other shortening services (urltea, etc) are deliberate, manual decisions.

[garyprice]

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.

[Becky]

PayPerPost (http://www.preblogging.com/payperpost.php) also uses their services to include javascript on peoples sites.