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On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Kevin Mesiab <ke...@mesiablabs.com> 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 > /api/stats/[short]/original<http://rt.nu/api/stats/8kw/original> to > grab the original url for archiving or displaying to end users. > > Dale: > > All links are dereferenced by rt.nu to be qualified before shortening. > Currently in beta, we've set the qualifications a bit tight and urls that > redirect using some schemes will be rejected, and some bad http status > headers will also cause rejection. This will be cleaned up a bit before > full public deployment. At present, all urls use rt.nu as the root domain > and are typically between 7 and 10 characters. > > Screenshots are gathered via http://www.thumbshots.com/ which works like > this: > > 1.) If the full url exists in the cache its image is returned, then the url > is queued for a new shot. > > 2.) If the full url does not exist in the cache as a screenshot, the root > domain is looked up. If the root domain is in the cache, that shot is > returned and the full url is queued for a new shot. > > > > On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 12:34 PM, owkaye <owk...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> > 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 therefore useless. >> >> Not a major problem on Twitter because of the typical >> transience of data, but when you run a company like mine >> that needs to reference historic data it will definitely >> create future problems when these companies fail. >> >> Just something for folks to consider ... >> >> Owkaye >> >> >> >> >> > > > -- > Kevin Mesiab > CEO, Mesiab Labs L.L.C. > http://twitter.com/kmesiab > http://mesiablabs.com > http://retweet.com >
