URL shorteners (was: Re: ISNIC DNS)

[Dominic Humphries]

On Wed, 2013-05-08 at 13:01 +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?

IRC? Links that take more than one line are annoying, and some even
manage to hit the 512-character limit.