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Re: Twitter launches own shortener t.co

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Post by notauser »

DrSprout wrote: post #24
solutionyogi wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

http://That.will.probably.lead.to.abuse.as.I.can.send.a.long...

Yes, it would be horrible if people could send messages longer than 140 characters via Twitter. The Internet as we know it would collapse.

There was a comment on Reddit a while back about what the 140 character limit means in different places:

  In English, you get a comment.
  In Japanese, you get a poem or a brief news article.
  In Chinese, you get a short story... it might as well be a novel.
And someone gave an example Chinese tweet that translated to:

"You guys are the Sina fans other there? 'Keep on Perseverance' (some literate group) is publishing some online literature collection, referencing to the sissy poet character in the 'Cellphone' TV series. I know the people in 'Sina Literature Collection" (another group) well since junior high school; often went to their chat room to chit-chat bull. His (Keep on Perservance) main page's arrangement is overwhelming; I can't digest them. My preference is simple, slim, light-breeze style of literature. Hey, today is the clan chief's birthday, too. Don't know how he/she enjoying his/her day in Swissland. May be eating chocolate fondue? I can't do winter hibernation anymore. Have to come out. And have been messing around with you all day long."

Re: Twitter launches own shortener t.co

#102

Post by marcus »

paulgb wrote: post #9

> If you are already partial to a particular shortener when you tweet, you can continue to use it for link shortening and analytics as you normally would, and we'll wrap the shortened links you submit. I really hope this habit doesn't catch on. If it does each link will have three points of failure instead of one (as it should) or two (as it will with t.co).

Its url shorteners all the way down...

Re: Twitter launches own shortener t.co

#103

Post by vaksel »

what wrote: post #42
chaosmachine wrote: post #37

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.co is a huge opportunity for squatters. I can't tell you how many times I've typed "site.co" instead of "site.com" because I hit enter too quickly. For legitimate uses, it's terrible. Imagine having to say "that's co NOT com... see-oh. no M!" every time you give out your domain.

> .co is a huge opportunity for squatters. You can get them at under a $1 per domain too if you bulk order them. But since it's a pre-order, the people who pay $300 get priority. I don't understand why they don't auction off the obviously desirable domains, like they're doing with the 1 letter domains.

i think that's $24.99 instead of $29.99 per domain if you register 21+, Not under $1 per domain.

Re: Twitter launches own shortener t.co

#104

Post by cynicalkane »

Tichy wrote: post #98
aditya wrote: post #52

Note: As Raffi clarified, this isn't a "shortener" but a "wrapper" http://twitter.com/twitterapi/status/15739646901 and http://twitter.com/twitterapi/status/15739827266

Bla Blubb. Of course it is an URL shortener.

Bla Blubb. Of course it is an URL shortener.

I would vote this up were it not for "Bla Blubb". I have no idea what that is supposed to say.

Re: Twitter launches own shortener t.co

#105

Post by bl4k »

SkyMarshal wrote: post #21

Interesting shoutout at the end to COInternet and the now-global .co TLD. I wasn't even aware of that. They're running quite a marketing campaign for the launch, anyone think it will rival .com's popularity?

can somebody explain to me what the deal is with .co? I see that there is a 3-phase rollout, which seems aimed at maximizing revenue and protecting existing .com.co domains. What is the best site to register/apply for a .co domain name? I have searched to no avail (just found a few sites that seem dodgy)

Re: Twitter launches own shortener t.co

#106

Post by hboon »

JoachimSchipper wrote: post #91
hboon wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's not true. Their API will now return the t.co URLs in the text section, so if developers don't do anything extra, things will (should, rather, I'm clarifying with them) still work, but t.co URLs will be displayed to users. Their API will return the original links too with markers, so client code can be updated to display the original URLs. Twitter wants developers to display the original URLs and link to the t.…

They could just stop giving 301s.

But 301 can be cached.

Re: Twitter launches own shortener t.co

#107

Post by jules »

jamesbritt wrote: post #93
jules wrote: post #89

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Join us in the 21st century and use HTML emails. You can use any text on a link, amazing huh?

When you send HTML email, it guarantees that all recipients are rendering it as HTML too?

For those that also live in the 21st century, yes. Which mail clients don't render HTML? Perhaps the users who still use ancient mail clients should consider switching, or endure reading HTML. I'm not going optimize for the minority by making web sites in plain text either for the few users who refuse to use a web browser.

Re: Twitter launches own shortener t.co

#108

Post by riobard »

notauser wrote: post #101
DrSprout wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, it would be horrible if people could send messages longer than 140 characters via Twitter. The Internet as we know it would collapse.

There was a comment on Reddit a while back about what the 140 character limit means in different places: In English, you get a comment. In Japanese, you get a poem or a brief news article. In Chinese, you get a short story... it might as well be a novel. And someone gave an example Chinese tweet that translated to: "You guys are the Sina fans other there? 'Keep on Perseverance' (some literate group) is publishing som…

There's a tradeoff between larger character set and easier input method. It's not trivial to input Chinese characters with keyboard. It compensates by allowing richer expressions with fewer characters.

Re: Twitter launches own shortener t.co

#109

Post by mdolon »

bl4k wrote: post #105
SkyMarshal wrote: post #21

Interesting shoutout at the end to COInternet and the now-global .co TLD. I wasn't even aware of that. They're running quite a marketing campaign for the launch, anyone think it will rival .com's popularity?

can somebody explain to me what the deal is with .co? I see that there is a 3-phase rollout, which seems aimed at maximizing revenue and protecting existing .com.co domains. What is the best site to register/apply for a .co domain name? I have searched to no avail (just found a few sites that seem dodgy)

I believe you can pre-register one at GoDaddy: http://www.godaddy.com/tlds/co-domain.aspx

Re: Twitter launches own shortener t.co

#110

Post by kristiandupont »

aditya wrote: post #71
tdavis wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So much for bit.ly. And this is great news, as far as I'm concerned. Generic shortened URLs are becoming a plague upon the web and are marginally useful at best outside of Twitter. Even more props to Twitter for demystifying links where applicable instead of taking the easier route of pure obscurity. The sooner third-party shorteners disappear from Twitter the sooner they can disappear from the rest of the web and we…

Generic shortened URLs are becoming a plague upon the web and are marginally useful at best outside of Twitter Marginally useful at best outside of Twitter? Care to explain? Less than 1% of bitly's traffic is coming from twtitter, so obviously there are other people that find value in trackable URLs... I'm curious why you think it isn't useful?

Yes, they are popular among people who send links, but annoying to people who click on them. I hate clicking on a link that I can't see the domain of.
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