Warning Twitter User's!! (this has to do with cloacking)

nowimhere · Oct 29, 2009

I just wanted to warn you guys, that if you are getting you accounts banned
and are using bit.ly STOP IT!

Why?

Because bit.ly is owned by twitter!

Just thought I would toss out the warning...

Twitter is really hammering down on this...

In short, if you DO plan on using bit.ly in the future...

Do NOT spam your links! TWITTER IS WATCHING YOU!

Cheers

twisted_one · Oct 29, 2009

Any link or proof where we can see that Twitter owns bit.ly? Google does not turn up anything as such.

freefox · Oct 29, 2009

they are smart if they owe that

Jupiter Justice · Oct 29, 2009

Where did you hear or find this out? Something new to me....

SpamHat · Oct 29, 2009

News to me, but it makes sense.

Doesn't effect my Twitter stuff though.
I actually like bit.ly a lot.

Robbygoalgoal · Oct 29, 2009

Good warning. But is there any way we can be sure that twitter really owns bit.ly? You know just to verify. It is good you brought this up though. I appreciate this.

orangeblossoms · Oct 29, 2009

Twitter doesn't own bit.ly...yet.

daryl · Oct 29, 2009

When you post long links in twitter don't they get turned into bit.ly links automatically?

Twitter · Oct 30, 2009

i thought it was tinyurl or somthing like that

Darkride24 · Oct 30, 2009

Cli.gs is the better choice i think

pyronaut · Oct 30, 2009

Twitter said:
i thought it was tinyurl or somthing like that

Yeah thats what it used to be. If your post was too long and you had links in it, it would TinyURL it. Not sure when they acquired Bit.ly (If they even have), but it wouldnt make sense to use a competitior...

nowimhere · Oct 31, 2009

SpamHat said:
News to me, but it makes sense.

Doesn't effect my Twitter stuff though.
I actually like bit.ly a lot.

Thats the thing, if you actually use bit.ly
you really, and I mean really like it. A lot.

^I think its the real time tracking that does it for me.....
:sombrero:

Darkride24 · Nov 1, 2009

Most of the clicks from twitter are bot clicks, maybe the 90%. I have tested this a lot of times, so if you see 25 clicks on your link, maybe the 3 or 4 are from humans. Even the cligs which has real time statistics from humans and bots isnt accurrate

RamChaturvedi · Nov 1, 2009

can we have any proof of this thing???ok..if not bit.ly then what else be the safe option for spamming..becoz twitter has become the alternate for the word 'SPAM'!!

HoNeYBiRD · Nov 1, 2009

nowimhere said:
Thats the thing, if you actually use bit.ly
you really, and I mean really like it. A lot.

^I think its the real time tracking that does it for me.....
:sombrero:

there are other url shortener services with real time tracking capabilities, e.g. cli.gs (my personal fav), budurl
and with cli.gs u can customize your url (and so much more), if i'm not wrong u can't do it anymore with bit.ly for a while (i don't find the function now but i'm sure bit.ly provided this kind of function in the past, i used it)

werrich · Nov 2, 2009

since bit.ly is (or was) THE thing used by twitter itself to shorten your urls, twitter would definitely keep an eye on bit.ly links if too many seemed to spammy. Can't say twit owns them but they definitely partner with them for url shortening.

ClownBaby · Nov 6, 2009

interesting stuff there. thanks for the heads up!

If Ya Think Im Sexy · Nov 6, 2009

Got like over 600 tweets, no warning.

gfawkes · Nov 17, 2009

twitter clients like TweetDeck will allow you to choose your preferred url shortening services.

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