[twitter-dev] Re: Hashing standard for URLs to find the Twitter version of shortened URLs

2009-07-17 Thread Matt Sanford
Hi Björn, Your proposal works if everybody plays by the rules but I think email spam has taught us that's an unrealistic expectation. Think of shortening malwareurl.com via Bit.ly and then including the hash for the URL to a popular YouTube video. Applications searching for the

[twitter-dev] Re: Hashing standard for URLs to find the Twitter version of shortened URLs

2009-07-17 Thread Bjoern
On Jul 17, 4:44 pm, Matt Sanford m...@twitter.com wrote:      Your proposal works if everybody plays by the rules but I think   email spam has taught us that's an unrealistic expectation. Think of   shortening malwareurl.com via Bit.ly and then including the hash for   the URL to a popular

[twitter-dev] Re: Hashing standard for URLs to find the Twitter version of shortened URLs

2009-07-17 Thread Nick Arnett
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 5:50 AM, Bjoern bjoer...@googlemail.com wrote: In fact if such a scheme was in place, it would also give people a way to officially link to a site. They could add the hash of the destination URL in their tweet and become searchable. I realize that would probably be