URL shorteners (was: Re: ISNIC DNS)

[David Cantrell]

On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 01:01:53PM +0100, Sam Kington wrote:

> Getting off-topic here, but what use are URL shorteners now that Twitter converts all links to be t.co/blah ? They don't save you any space in tweets, and they obfuscate the URL you're linking to. Is link-tracking really that useful?

There's a world outside twitter, and URLs that line-wrap can be a pain
in the arse depending on what email clients people are using, what MUAs
messed around with stuff in the middle, and the phase of the moon.

-- 
David Cantrell
Professor of Unvironmental Science
University of Human Progress