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Re:URL Shorteners – the herpes of the web by rizzn on Monday April 20, 2009 @12:56AM (#570231)
That still won't help someone who's trying to paste it into Twitter or a Facebook status feed.
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Re:URL Shorteners – the herpes of the web by tlrobinson on Monday April 20, 2009 @03:01AM (#570322)
Those are problems that should be solved by Twitter and Facebook. Give people a way to put a link with shorter link text, something simple like Markdown [text](url) format.

If the message is being sent to SMS or some other constrained medium, then automatically shorten it. Chances are that link won't be distributed beyond the device it's sent to anyway.

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