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Twitter's Walled Garden Strategy

Twitter’s Walled Garden Strategy

By Krishnan Subramanian on October 10, 2011

Twitter today announced that they will be wrapping all the links posted on tweets using their t.co short URL. They are doing this with claims about better security but I feel that it is bad from the ecosystem perspective and user perspective. To be specific, it is both anti-competitive and anti-user. Tens of millions of […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Strategy | Tagged business practice, social, social media, t.co, twitter, url shortener | 3 Responses

The Problem with URL Shorteners: ow.ly Server Errors

The Problem with URL Shorteners: ow.ly Server Errors

By Guest Authors on April 14, 2009

If you currently click on a ow.ly shortened URL you will be shown a server error page at ow.ly – not the URL you or the publisher intended you to see. Proponents of these services have so far ignored the main problem; trusting a third party. I guess they see the problem now when potential visitors to their […]

Posted in General | Tagged delicious, Digg, error, ow.ly, pagerank, seo, third-party, url, url shortener | 9 Responses

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