Hi, I see many services for shortening url's that seems far better then TinyUrl. But TinyUrl seems widely used and the same does not seems to happen with others ...
I am just not sure if I should go for the standard or for other options like bit.ly. bit.ly seems really good ... The click tracker at the moment is not so important because I am already tracking all hits of the documents and articles on this project using google analytics. Since the short urls are all pointing to documents and articles so it would be just a replication. Thanks, Miguel On Mar 10, 9:43 pm, Alex Payne <[email protected]> wrote: > I also highly recommend bit.ly. If were doing a project that required > URL shortening, it's what I would use. We use TinyURL presently by > convention, and because they were the most widely recognized URL > shortener at the time we wrote the auto-shortening functionality. > bit.ly adds far more value to a shortened URL, though. > > > > On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 12:12, Ivan Kirigin <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I can highly recommendhttp://bit.ly > > > You can also setup a CNAME to point to their service. I have > > b.tipjoy.com setup, for links like this: > >http://twitter.com/TipjoyHelper/status/1267799430 > > > They give you real time analytics on clicks, which is great. > > > I just tweeted this awesome Mario Paint rendition of Paranoid Android: > >http://bit.ly/WFMN9 > > > And you can track the clicks here: > >http://bit.ly/WFMN9+ > > > Note that I'm biased - I know the good folks who make bit.ly > > > Best, > > Ivan > >http://tipjoy.com > > > On Mar 10, 1:56 am, PSM <[email protected]> wrote: > >> you are completely safe to use tinyurl. yes there are issues with > >> it. yes it would be nice if somebody offered fixes to that. > > >> but the fact is that several hundred thousand twits per day use > >> tinyurl. so whatever issues tinyurl per se may or may not have, > >> twitter and the twitter community are putting up with it. > > -- > Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc.http://twitter.com/al3x
