Hi, I just wanted to look into the URL shortening issues, but found that I could not get Twitter to shorten my URLs anymore. Has Twitter dropped the practice of using bit.ly?
I am very interested in the reverse lookup - finding tweets that link to a given web site. I think it would have been next to impossible to do with bit.ly anyway, so if Twitter dropped it again, cheers to that! At least with tinyurl there was a high likelyhood that all tinyurls pointing to a given web site would be the same. As far as I can tell bit.ly does not even give you the option to create a "common" URL via the API - all URLs would be specific to the API caller. It would be great if eventually Twitter could support searching for URLs (and finding all of it's variants), similar to the recently announced TweetMeme API. The TweetMeme API is interesting, but too (rate) limited - also missing JSONP. Besides, it would really make sense if Twitter would support this directly. Björn
