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[samuelvimes]

Question for people who are more Twitter-literate than I: how on earth do you know whether links like, say, http://bit.ly/wrn24 don't turn out to lead you to hardcore Kazakh lemur porn?

Comments

[geg_thomas]

If you're using a web browser you can get plugins that bring up a preview of the page or brief description when you hover over the link.

[samuelvimes]

Yeah, but then you get Kazakh lemur porn in the preview. Or?

[geg_thomas]

I guess. Get a plug in that displays the page title on hover?

[lotiel_vanya]

You don't? The other link shortener site (can't remember its name right now) has a setting you can apply that makes it not automatically redirect. bit.ly could, maybe, have something similar?

[samuelvimes]

Nope, it doesn't. Think you may be thinking of tinyurl.com. Which is five letters longer, presumably not ideal for kvitring.

[lotiel_vanya]

That was the service I was thinking of. Hmm.