[twitter-dev] Re: Hashing standard for URLs to find the Twitter version of shortened URLs

2009-07-17 Thread Nick Arnett
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 5:50 AM, Bjoern wrote: > > In fact if such a scheme was in place, it would also give people a way > to "officially" link to a site. They could add the hash of the > destination URL in their tweet and become searchable. I realize that > would probably be too geeky for wides

[twitter-dev] Re: Hashing standard for URLs to find the Twitter version of shortened URLs

2009-07-17 Thread Bjoern
On Jul 17, 4:44 pm, Matt Sanford wrote: >      Your proposal works if everybody plays by the rules but I think   > email spam has taught us that's an unrealistic expectation. Think of   > shortening malwareurl.com via Bit.ly and then including the hash for   > the URL to a popular YouTube video.

[twitter-dev] Re: Hashing standard for URLs to find the Twitter version of shortened URLs

2009-07-17 Thread Matt Sanford
Hi Björn, Your proposal works if everybody plays by the rules but I think email spam has taught us that's an unrealistic expectation. Think of shortening malwareurl.com via Bit.ly and then including the hash for the URL to a popular YouTube video. Applications searching for the YouTu