6 ms·
It seems like lot of URL shorteners have shut down over the last few years. Is there a common reason? Malware?
by lacraig2 5y ago
It seems like lot of URL shorteners have shut down over the last few years. Is there a common reason? Malware?
- toomuchtodo 5y agoTwitter doubled their character limits in a tweet while Twitter users adopted the concept of multiple tweets to form a thread. No other services (to my knowledge) impose character limits that would require url shortening.
- weird-eye-issue 5y agoTwitter automatically shortens URLs so what are you even going on about?
- bdcravens 5y agoMore likely (though malware can contribute to this) they just can't justify the cost. There's always going to be a terse response that someone could build one in an afternoon and a $5 Digital Ocean VM, but bandwidth costs can be significant at scale.