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"We will be updating the TOS to require you to check t.co and register the click." Damn. Looks like URL shorteners are here to stay, permanently, and twitter is crowding out all existing link shorteners.
"We will be updating the TOS to require you to check t.co and register the click." This quote does not appear in the Twitter announcement; is it from elsewhere, or speculation?
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?
.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.
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.
It lists another company in the WHOIS for the t.co domain. This begs the question: are they leasing it?
.CO founders are hand-picked to ensure the domain will "contribute to the .CO community in a meaningful way." In return, they get get first dibs on a .CO domain name, which will be publicly launched in July 2010. (http://www.cointernet.co/domain/become-co-founder)
Maybe it is registered under the program's name instead of the actual registrant to ensure registrants under the program stick with their originally-submitted plan. Or at least they can't turn around and change it to a domain parked ad page.
Or perhaps the whois registrant name will be changed after the public launch.
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It's been said one hundred million times, but the reason is for SMS.
That's just a tidbit thrown around to soothe those irked by the limit. It's been well over a decade since the last mobile phone was sold that couldn't handle long/concatenated SMS. The reality is that the 140 character limit is just an arbitrary one; one that makes Twitter, Twitter.
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?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's just a tidbit thrown around to soothe those irked by the limit. It's been well over a decade since the last mobile phone was sold that couldn't handle long/concatenated SMS. The reality is that the 140 character limit is just an arbitrary one; one that makes Twitter, Twitter.
I still can't send text messages over 160 characters to anyone not on my carrier (Verizon) so I'm not sure where you're getting that figure from.
Perhaps this is another anomaly that Americans have to put up with from their carriers — not being one I wouldn't know.
I wonder when some tiny country will decide to just turn their entire top-level national TLD into a url shortener.
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?
.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.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I still can't send text messages over 160 characters to anyone not on my carrier (Verizon) so I'm not sure where you're getting that figure from.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concatenated_SMS Perhaps this is another anomaly that Americans have to put up with from their carriers — not being one I wouldn't know.