Twitter launches own shortener t.co • Hacker News Board

Re: Twitter launches own shortener t.co

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Post by Shorel » Wed, Jun 09, 2010, 3:58 PM UTC

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)

The best site to register is Network Solutions, as they are partners of the enterprise that is .co.

Re: Twitter launches own shortener t.co

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Post by sumeeta » Wed, Jun 09, 2010, 4:11 PM UTC

axod wrote: post #94

coderdude wrote: post #23

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It's not a defense. It's a fact. My co-worker prefers to receive all tweets via SMS. They advertise the SMS feature at the top of every page. Calling people names at every turn isn't going to make your point more valid.

Last I saw something like 5% of users accessed twitter using SMS. Basing your limits on a very very very niche use case seems bizarre.

Realize we are all big time nerds with smartphones. Everyone else doesn't have one (yet?).

And when Twitter started out, even fewer of us had them.

Re: Twitter launches own shortener t.co

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Post by fseek » Wed, Jun 09, 2010, 5:25 PM UTC

What a way to kill bit.ly and others....

Re: Twitter launches own shortener t.co

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Post by bonzoesc » Wed, Jun 09, 2010, 6:34 PM UTC

riobard wrote: post #108

notauser wrote: post #101

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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.

The APL of human languages.

Re: Twitter launches own shortener t.co

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Post by JoachimSchipper » Wed, Jun 09, 2010, 7:03 PM UTC

hboon wrote: post #106

JoachimSchipper wrote: post #91

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They could just stop giving 301s.

But 301 can be cached.

Can't you just set Cache-Control: no-cache to fix that?

Re: Twitter launches own shortener t.co

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Post by papachito » Wed, Jun 09, 2010, 11:08 PM UTC

ericd wrote: post #96

papachito wrote: post #62

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> why is this TLD being allowed? Colombia?

Yeah, I saw that. They should have been given .cl or something that's not a common misspelling of the de facto standard TLD.

.cl is for Chile.

Re: Twitter launches own shortener t.co

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Post by ericd » Thu, Jun 10, 2010, 4:34 AM UTC

papachito wrote: post #116

ericd wrote: post #96

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Yeah, I saw that. They should have been given .cl or something that's not a common misspelling of the de facto standard TLD.

.cl is for Chile.

.cb? Is there a rule against 3 letter country TLDs? (And, thanks for the info).

Re: Twitter launches own shortener t.co

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Post by Tichy » Thu, Jun 10, 2010, 6:43 AM UTC

cynicalkane wrote: post #104

Tichy wrote: post #98

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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.

It's supposed to say that Twitter is just babbling to hide the fact that it is simply a URL shortener.