Twitter’s “World Dominance 140 Characters At a Time” Tour continues as it tries to help users squeeze more into
their messages. This time, however, there is casualty. TinyURL was the default URL shortening service for Twitter until recently when bit.ly was deemed the service of choice to shorten the URL’s of millions (that sounds painful, doesn’t it?) as reported by TechCrunch.
TinyURL has been with Twitter since its inception but the bit.ly service has a few advantages over it and some even benefit the users. bit.ly makes URL’s shorter than TinyURL which in the limited space that 140 characters is can be advantageous. Just think of the tragedy if one of your followers couldn’t get the additional exclamation point you had to share so you could really get your emotion across to them. Oh, the humanity!


a lot of it has to do with the government and the variety of sundry concerns around that like monopolies, anti-trust, lobbying and general political activity. So what’s a corporate giant to do when the news gets a little ‘uncomfortable’? Why spin, of course! So get ready, Pilgrims, put your blindfolds on as we spin you around and see if you can play today’s game of “Pin the Tail on the Truth!”.
efficiently than Google itself.
process in Washington, DC rather than making money selling advertising through its search engine. Recently, its been discussed here that the
those were in the US operations of the company.
success is not an automatic win in the mobile ad market. Yahoo is feeling the same pinch but that is just one of many issues facing that company these days, isn’t it?
course, it seems like everyone would like to purchase Twitter but there’s the sticky detail of Twitter saying yes that seems to elude most.







