FriendFeed recently added a post to Twitter feature meaning they now have to obey the 140 character limit of Twitter.
Instead of relying on a external URL shortening service like TinyURL, they’ve come up with their own service called ff.im. The domain ff.im redirects to Friendfeed, and there is no way to use ff.im directly. Still the service has become pretty popular, judging by the twitter activity.
Find this article at: http://www.labnol.org/internet/voice/friendfeeds-url-shortening-service-ffim/5173/
Tags: Archives, friendfeed, tinyurl, twitter, url shortening, Communication
Reader Comments
Very smart. I’m always laughing when Lifehacker and all the other Weblogs are using TinyURL… what will they do when TinyURL is no more available?
A tiny url script is easy to set up, takes 20 minutes or less and it’s more professional to use link than a third party service I think.
Written by marco on 11.01.08
Incidentally I noticed today that Twirl is auto converting URLs using TinyURL…not sure this was the case earlier.
Written by Rajesh Kumar on 11.03.08