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 too geeky for widespread adaption, but in theory I > like the idea ;-) This issue goes well beyond Twitter. Those of us who have created any sort of URL tracking and measurment application would benefit from it. There's great value, I am certain, in being able to identify, as close to real-time as possible, URLs that are being cited by a lot of people (or by influencers/opinion leaders, etc.) Each cite is a signifcant "vote" for the page and when it occurs in real-time media (v. static web pages), it provides a relevance metric that Google and its competitors aren't touching yet. This seemed to be worth a blog post: http://www.nickarnett.net/2009/07/17/whats-really-wrong-with-url-shorteners/ Nick
