On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 7:55 AM, Bjoern <bjoer...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > > > On Jul 15, 4:27 pm, Nick Arnett <nick.arn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 7:19 AM, Andrew Badera <and...@badera.us> wrote: > > > > > But I believe bit.ly returns different, unique URLs for logged-in > users > > > > That is an option, but in my experience, it is relatively rare. > > If you want to create a bitly url via the API, you have to be logged > in. Therefore I assume "twitter" logs in to bit.ly to create the URLs. > Therefore I would expect all bit.ly URLs that Twitter generates to be > specific to Twitter. If you shorten a URL via some other account (you > always have to login for the bit.ly API), it would result in a > different URL. If Twitter could generate the "standard URL", it would > be a big step. Hmmm... just tried a few and sure enough, the bit.ly URLs generated by Twitter seem to be unique to Twitter, although consistent. Apparently Twitter has enabled bit.ly URL tracking. There's a horrible solution to that, too... tweet the original URL and then read back the status to get the Twitter-specific bit.ly URL. Ugh. Nick
