I’m sure I’m a minority here, but are URL shorteners (e.g. TinyURL) really a “business”? Bit.ly raised $2m in funding for this? What?
On the news that Twitter has switched URL shorteners, why isn’t Twitter doing this themselves? Either by handling URL shortening directly, or even better, treating URLs properly with respect to contributing to the 140 char tweet limit.
I must be missing something.