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?
Twitter launches own shortener t.co
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It's been said one hundred million times, but the reason is for SMS.
That's not a defence, it's an excuse.
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.
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#24What is wrong with these people, just fix twitter so url's don't count to the count. Morons. There's no better user experience to a shortened url, it's like having unprotected sex with a random in a nightclub, you've no idea what you could end up with. Repeat after me, shortened urls break the web and are inherently evil.
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.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's not a defence, it's an excuse.
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.
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#26What is wrong with these people, just fix twitter so url's don't count to the count. Morons. There's no better user experience to a shortened url, it's like having unprotected sex with a random in a nightclub, you've no idea what you could end up with. Repeat after me, shortened urls break the web and are inherently evil.
http://That.will.probably.lead.to.abuse.as.I.can.send.a.long...
If Twitter doesn't check for a valid response at each URL, then this will be possible anyway. If it does check, then this wouldn't be possible anyway.
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#27From users' perspective, the big thing here is that clients can now show where links in tweets actually lead. For brevity, the link text should probably just be the domain it leads to, but it should make things a whole lot more readable. Before - This is a great news site: http://bit.ly/2Mp91y After - This is a great news site: news.ycombinator.com A loss for URL shortener services, but a win for users.
Clients could have easily done this before. HEAD /2Mp91y HTTP/1.1 Host: bit.ly ... Status: HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Location: http://news.ycombinator.com/ If the goal was minimizing requests, Twitter could've saved the endpoint on its end and passed the data through the API. A new shortener was unnecessary, though it's easy to see why it is desirable for them.
Querying each URL would be impractical to do on the Twitter client side, especially on a mobile device, even simply from the latency before you can render perspective. You could render the tweets with the shortened links and then reflow the text if/when each HEAD request returns, but that would probably result in a crummy, slow experience for the reader as they scroll through tweets.
Twitter could indeed have done it on their side, but just doing it themselves is more efficient for them and provides a bit of extra user benefit - the fact it's automatic so you get more room for text in your tweets, their malicious link protection, and reliability if you assume Twitter is more reliable than J Random URL Shortener.
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#28Any reason Twitter just doesn't let you use HTML anchors, and skip this whole mess?
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
http://That.will.probably.lead.to.abuse.as.I.can.send.a.long...
If Twitter doesn't check for a valid response at each URL, then this will be possible anyway. If it does check, then this wouldn't be possible anyway.
Twitter gets millions of tweets and I am sure good percentage of them will have URLs. And if they start checking valid response for each URL, I think soon they will have to build a new data center just for this task. Also, what if the URL is temporarily down? What should they do?
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#30Interesting 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?
Yeah I was wondering the same thing...
After reading their website though, I got the impression cointernet.co guys are trying too hard to convince how much of a hit .co will be.
Also, isn't there a plan in the works to make everything and a kitchen sink as their own .tld?