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Re: Long Urls please

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aidanf — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 11:16:29 -0000

And I meant to write 'right' rather than write.

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Simmons — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:55:04 -0000

You have to use short urls. It helps with the sites SEO,

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Kieran — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:32:44 -0000

Have to say I find the tiny links a little annoying as I like to see the domain name when someone has mentioned a post on twitter or a blog. It saves me the time on click through to a post I have already seen. A lot of people on twitter repackage the same news in a different way. Aaaahhh social marketing

Re: Long Urls please

darraghcurran — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 06:13:10 -0000

Hey Aidan,
I've set up a blog (http://longurlplease.blogsp..., moved the add-on to mozilla add-on site (https://addons.mozilla.org/... and added a bookmarklet so that users of any browsers can benefit from longurlplease.
Perhaps you'd like to do a guest post to the blog (something along the lines of your misusing-tinyurls post)?

Cheers,
Darragh

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alergia — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 19:53:44 -0000

than you for the link, i´m from spain and i kike your blog.

congratulations

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alergia — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 19:52:18 -0000

thanks for the link. I´m from spain but i like your blog.

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darraghcurran — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 07:06:34 -0000

Thanks Aidan, I'll consider putting together a blog to announce updates etc. For the moment I'll make announcements on twitter - http://twitter.com/longurlp... (low volume)

Re: Long Urls please

aidanf — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 05:53:09 -0000

No problem. I suggest adding a blog to the website so I can subscribe to updates by rss.

Btw, links in twitter posts are *way* more useful with the plugin installed. I used to skip most of them. Now I find myself following them more often because I have some context to go on.

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aidanf — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 05:43:19 -0000

Twitter is especially annoying because it automatically converts any link that is longer than 30 chars to a tinyurl whether you want it to or not.

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aidanf — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 05:40:55 -0000

You're write - I meant to write email rather than text document.

Re: Long Urls please

paulmwatson — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 18:20:37 -0000

Bang on Aidan.

Funnily enough I find it most annoying in services like Twitter. I subscribe to O'Reilly Radar via RSS and follow Tim O'Reilly on Twitter. He cross-posts and it isn't always clear if the shortened link he uses in Twitter is to a Radar post I've already read.

Maybe sites like Twitter just need to be smarter about URLs.

Re: Long Urls please

Robin Blandford — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 18:15:08 -0000

>> "Appropriate user are where space is restricted e.g. twitter messages or the link is so long it wraps over multiple lines in a text document. Otherwise don't shorten it"

The only appropriate use is a 'temporary' url (be it twitter/email etc.).

Re: Long Urls please

darraghcurran — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 12:59:53 -0000

Thanks for the link Aidan. I'd love to hear if you've any ideas on how to make it even better.
Cheers,
Darragh