{"id":216,"date":"2009-05-07T17:01:35","date_gmt":"2009-05-07T21:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.payne.org\/?p=216"},"modified":"2009-05-07T17:01:35","modified_gmt":"2009-05-07T21:01:35","slug":"url-shorteners-wtf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/url-shorteners-wtf\/","title":{"rendered":"URL Shorteners, WTF?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;m a minority here, but are URL shorteners (e.g. TinyURL) really a &#8220;business&#8221;?\u00a0 Bit.ly raised $2m in funding for this?\u00a0 What?<\/p>\n<p>On the news that Twitter has switched URL shorteners, why isn&#8217;t Twitter doing this themselves?\u00a0 Either by handling URL shortening directly, or even better, treating URLs properly with respect to contributing to the 140 char tweet limit.<\/p>\n<p>I must be missing something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;m a minority here, but are URL shorteners (e.g. TinyURL) really a &#8220;business&#8221;?\u00a0 Bit.ly raised $2m in funding for this?\u00a0 What? On the news that Twitter has switched URL shorteners, why isn&#8217;t Twitter doing this themselves?\u00a0 Either by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/url-shorteners-wtf\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}