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lyndonh | 11 years ago

People are using shorteners on shortened links, this is the problem.

The most obvious one is Twitter, always using it's own service regardless.

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sukuriant|11 years ago

My guess would be for analytics, so it knows how its own service is being used and who is accessing websites through it. It comes with a convenient feature that bad URLs can be taken down on its site.

unclebucknasty|11 years ago

Genuinely curious: How does it take down bad URLs? And, by "bad", are we talking about 404s?