Just wanted to give an FYI to the devs here that if your planning on or using Digg in your apps they are now hijacking your links to direct traffic to their site. You can read a story on it here http://mashable.com/2009/07/19/digg-twitter-links/ Sure enough I clicked a digg short url and was redirected to their site instead of where the link was intended to point to.
I am very glad Twitter does not have the API restrictions on it like the Google API's do, as I did include a preview link option for bit.ly and tiny url links (to check where the links points to) and with biy.ly I'm sure there is a way to check the destination URL (eg. JSONP API Call) and use that in your source code where Digg links now I will need to add a visitor/user warning that they may now link to digg instead. I just hate the way some services have to quickly follow trends and does this mean other short url services are going to port all traffic to their sites now and force people to sign up and create accounts there? (and increase the number of ads they are serving) Man I can't believe this! Your thoughts?
