

Tiny URLs for those tweets

5:39 PM, Nov. 5, 2012
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Question: What's this "" I keep seeing in diverse locations?

- Ron, Irondequoit

Answer: The answer to that will take us back to the first days of Twitter. Given that you only had 140 characters, having a URL that took up forty or fifty of those characters was clearly too constricting. That's when URL shorteners came into their own. is one of those URL shorteners. ...

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