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Re:Death by a thousand likes: Facebook and Twitter are killi... by derEitel on Thursday November 12, 2015 @09:54AM (#10553440)
Do CDNs use link shorteners to cache content in specific regions? Let's say A often shortens links and users B and C read them most of the times. So once user A shortens a new link the CDN (who would need to own the link shortener) could cache the content close to users B and C.
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