Twitter Should Stop Doing A Microsoft
In my premature obituary of Tr.im, I took a position where I had suggested that Twitter should buy bit.ly to improve the trust people keep on URL-shortening services. Bit.ly is another URL shortening service which has 3 million unique monthly visitors and with a $2 M Series A funding. Recently, Twitter ditched tinyURL.com and selected [...]
The Tragedy Of URL Shortners And Why Twitter Should Buy Bit.ly
Today, Nambu, the company behind tr.im URL shortening service, announced that they are shutting down tr.im because it is not economically feasible for them. tr.im did well for what it was, but, alas, it was not enough. We simply cannot find a way to justify continuing to work on it, or pay its network costs, [...]
