It’s rare that I’m the slow girl on the block but recently I had one of those light bulb moments. I’ve been doing some Twittering and kept seeing this link that everyone was using with a “tinyurl.com” component so I checked out their website.
TinyURL.com will convert your long URL string into a short, 25 characters or so string.
My first thought was “cool” (yes, I grew up in the 60’s).
Then it dawned on me that Twitter only allows 140 characters for your posting so this was a move to maximize available space. This time, very cool.
Here is a whole new service spawned by a very specific need within the web. Outside of Twitter, the only other use I could think of was to covert those strings you often pass along into shorter, easier copied lengths – your blog; published page references; your website, etc.
I admire the ingenuity to recognize and fill this type of need. I hope TinyURL reaps big revenues.
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