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Re:The Media Map: Who's Reading What And Where by antidoh on Sunday July 22, 2012 @12:41PM (#4277698)
"We worked with Bitly and its data on millions of Web clicks to find the most influential media outlets in the country."

This is the real "value" of link shorteners.

Link shortening needs to be an RFC, implemented within the browser and any other http tool.