Interesting article on Twitter rewriting some links to use their t.co URL shortener

Alistair Croll speculates [1] on Twitter's possible efforts to 
rewrite/redirect links included in Tweets by using the t.co [2] URL 
shortener.  Any URL shortener is to some degree in conflict with AWWW's 
advice on URI aliases [3].  Maybe or maybe not, as speculated in another 
presentation by Alistair, URLs are the new cookies.

Anyway, I think it would be good for the TAG to keep an eye on the growing 
use of URL shorteners.

Noah

[1] http://radar.oreilly.com/m/2010/09/why-twitters-recent-announceme.html
[2] http://support.twitter.com/entries/109623
[3] http://www.w3.org/TR/webarch/#uri-aliases
[4] 
http://blog.snowballfactory.com/2009/05/02/barcampla-7-presentation-urls-are-the-new-cookies/

Received on Monday, 13 September 2010 19:40:09 UTC