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Long day’s journey into bitly

Posted on July 25, 2012 by otinokyad

…with apologies to Eugene O’Neill. For the past two years, I have checked in from time to time with bitly and added to my posts about what I found. What started as an amusing projection — how could the URL-shortening … Continue reading →

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“Soooo big!” Counting on bit.ly, Part III

Posted on July 3, 2010 by otinokyad

In the two previous posts on this topic, I calculated that, all other things being equal, the pool of 62^6 = 56,800,235,584 six-character strings from which bit.ly is currently assigning shortened URLs has a projected “exhaustion date” somewhere around the … Continue reading →

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“Soooo big!” Counting on bit.ly, Part II

Posted on July 2, 2010 by otinokyad

In Part I, I calculated that bit.ly is currently using a pool of 62^6 = 56,800,235,584 six-character strings that it can assign as re-directs, for example, to provide URL-shortening for tweets that are up against Twitter’s 140-character limit. After I … Continue reading →

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“Soooo big!” Counting on bit.ly, Part I

Posted on July 2, 2010 by otinokyad

The URL-shortening service, bit.ly, is heavily used on Twitter to help members stay within the 140-character limit for each tweet (post). According to a brief story by Ben Parr in Mashable, bit.ly took over first place in this market from … Continue reading →

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