Comments on: Twitter’s link-sharing limits

By: SooW’s BBQ |

SooW’s BBQ | — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:43:27 +0000

[...] It’s slowly replacing RSS. What a terrible news since RSS was also designed to be decentralized. Moreover, a RSS stream can embed full article, while Twitter is just indirections and redirections. Everything depends on another service. For instance, if bit.ly goes down, Twitter dies. Talking about shorteners: URLs used to have a meaning, a value, but they ruined it — stupid limit. [...]

By: Tuomas Kumpula

Tuomas Kumpula — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 07:31:12 +0000

This article delighted me more than you can think of. We have been building a specific tool for this for 1 year now, link2friend.com (not out yet) – also to accommodate the need to use link sharing service to replace polluted emails in corporations.

We should be launching very soon so let me know if you wish to try it out as private beta user and even help us to further develop it.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:12:10 +0000

Our company is new to the whole internet sales. We are trying to build our link popularity to our site. http://www.lightingtheweb.com. Can this be done in a short time or does this take years to accomplish

By: Kevin Sablan

Kevin Sablan — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 12:21:19 +0000

I have faith that the Twitter API developer crowd will answer your call. I’m not sure how to make Twitter “easier to share links real-time,” but here are some ideas that might tide you over until Twitter incorporates your wish list.

Third party tools like http://longurl.org expand shortened URLs. Perhaps someone could create a (Greasemonkey-powered?) Firefox plugin to automatically do this while you browse.

To “watch something cool grow,” there is http://www.microblogbuzz.com and, more to your interest in links, http://twitturls.com .

For “rudimentary tools for organizing the links,” you can use FriendFeed as your Twitter client (read http://cli.gs/QDruP0 ) and organize your friends and followers — not links — with FriendFeed’s groups and rooms.

I’ve recently found a new love for Delicious, BECAUSE of the power of its “network” and RSS feeds. Yesterday I started using it, along with Yahoo! Pipes, to create a daily roundup of journalism links on my blog … http://cli.gs/YrrSVq

By: Cliff

Cliff — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:18:55 +0000

Mitch K tweeted this Tinyurl expander for Mozilla:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8636

By: Lowering Your Bounce Rate and Sharing Links on Twitter « The Feed

Lowering Your Bounce Rate and Sharing Links on Twitter « The Feed — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:05:48 +0000

[...] has some great advice for Twitter: So here’s an opportunity for Twitter, or for someone else, if the Twitter team is too busy: [...]

By: Chris Winters

Chris Winters — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 02:44:00 +0000

In addition to tags you can also subscribe to anybody’s bookmarks with http://delicious.com/rss/{username} — following links from people I respect is my primary way of keeping up with the mass of material out there.

By: Scott Rosenberg

Scott Rosenberg — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 01:52:54 +0000

Thanks, right, it’s “network” on delicious. It says something about either Delicious or me that I’ve been using it for, what, six years or something like that and I could neither remember nor find the feature… In any case, I wonder how widely it’s used.

In email I’m informed about the Firefox LongURL expander, which helps deal with the URL-shortener issue:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8636

I also fully understand that from the perspective of Twitter management, they’ve got this elegantly simple service, and a million people advising them to add a million new features that would collectively ruin the elegant simplicity. Still: I wish linking worked better.

By: 140Char » Catching up on the world of microblogging

140Char » Catching up on the world of microblogging — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 00:59:29 +0000

[...] Scott Rosenberg has an interesting post looking at whether Twitter could be improved as a link sharing tool in a way that could improve on social bookmarking site Delicious. [...]

By: Scott Carpenter

Scott Carpenter — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 00:15:38 +0000

I’ve been using delicious for a while now, and just started experimenting with twitter.

I wonder if people generally share links more freely on twitter — posting links to transient items that they wouldn’t bother saving on delicious. I tend to bookmark things in delicious that I think I might be worth looking up later, and I think of it more for my own sake than to point others at something. I don’t really think of delicious as a realtime feed as much as twitter seems to be, and I don’t follow my (small) network on delicious.

With twitter, I’ve only posted a handful of items and am following a few people, so don’t have a strong sense of how it is for link sharing. (And while I like the aesthetics of a short tinyurl or bit.ly url, I don’t like how they hide the destination and that they kind of break the distributed web.)

But that’s just thoughts from my limited pattern of usage and experience with both services.