[twitter-dev] Re: Safe url shorteners

got this message below after clicking "yes" on do I want to continue, from one of your sites. My first impression of this feature is not so good for a few reasons, the least of which is the annoyance factor... Oops, Retweet.com hiccupped. Here's why: This cloud node could not resolve the ReTweet

[twitter-dev] Re: Safe url shorteners

Thumbshots.com is a paid service too. Major fail. On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Chris Thomson wrote: > You may want to check what thumbshots is doing with the URL > http://google.com/ . It's definitely not taking a screenshot of the > correct site … > -- > Chris Thomson > > On 15-Jul-09, at

[twitter-dev] Re: Safe url shorteners

u might check these guys http://www.thumbalizr.com/index.php On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Kevin Mesiab wrote: > That's a valid concern that we share in our retweet.com application. We > dereference all shortened urls before indexing tweets. > > In anticipation, rt.nu supplies the API call

[twitter-dev] Re: Safe url shorteners

You may want to check what thumbshots is doing with the URL http://google.com/ . It's definitely not taking a screenshot of the correct site … -- Chris Thomson On 15-Jul-09, at 7:06 PM, Kevin Mesiab wrote: That's a valid concern that we share in our retweet.com application. We dereference

[twitter-dev] Re: Safe url shorteners

That's a valid concern that we share in our retweet.com application. We dereference all shortened urls before indexing tweets. In anticipation, rt.nu supplies the API call /api/stats/[short]/original to grab the original url for archiving or displaying to end

[twitter-dev] Re: Safe url shorteners

. Interesting mods. Would I be able to use it with my own domain (Fol.la for branding)? FYI 1. inserted a link that it said was not valid (but works fine) 2. does not give me screenshot prior On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Kevin Mesiab wrote: > Just wanted to let you guys know about a free

[twitter-dev] Re: Safe url shorteners

> Just wanted to let you guys know about a free service > we're prototyping for shortening URL's that overcomes a > few of the limitations of other shorteners. Only one problems with all these URL shorteners, when the companies creating them disappear all their shortened URLs become orphans and