Archive for April, 2008

Twitter is used to share links, so why obscure them?

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

Twitter is designed as a low-attention system to mass-broadcast short messages, and I understand that the 140-character limit is an important restriction that ensures that is what it continues to be. However, this can be 'gamed' to fit long URLs (as in 'most URLs') into the message using URL-shortening services ...