My 2 pence: The difference with bit.ly is that I choose to use it. If I don't want to use it I'm not forced to.
Additionally, what happens if the t.co service goes down? All links will be temporarily broken until the service goes back up. On Jun 9, 4:17 pm, Harshad RJ <harshad...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Dewald Pretorius <dpr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I don't buy the click tracking privacy argument. Twitter will have no > > more insight into clicks than what bit.ly or any other shortening > > service has, > > The difference being that the user who clicks the links in Twitter will have > most probably logged into Twitter. Thus, Twitter can directly associate a > click with a user. > > When clicking on bit.ly shortened URLs it is very very unlikely that the > user is logged into bit.ly. That is because only people who shorten URLs > need a bit.ly account (which is a very small percentage). > > -- > Harshad RJhttp://hrj.wikidot.com
