#urlteam 2012-12-19,Wed

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16:50 ๐Ÿ”— swebb soultcer: did you grab my file? https://www.dropbox.com/s/yvh0yel4vj3nzjb/2012-twitter-unrolled-urls-20120101-20121217.txt.bz2
18:23 ๐Ÿ”— soultcer swebb: Yes, got it
18:23 ๐Ÿ”— swebb Excellent.
18:23 ๐Ÿ”— swebb I'll leave it up there for a while just in case.
18:23 ๐Ÿ”— soultcer I'll import it into the db and will add it to the db so that everyone can use it even for shorteners that I have not imported
18:24 ๐Ÿ”— soultcer I seriously underestimated just how many different URL shorteners are being used by Twitter users.
18:25 ๐Ÿ”— swebb Yea, it's got everything recursively un-wound, so it t.co/xxx -> bit.ly/xxx -> amzn.com/xxx -> etc รขย€ยฆ It's got them all until the non-redirected url is hit.
18:25 ๐Ÿ”— swebb There are a buttload of shorteners out there.
18:26 ๐Ÿ”— swebb instagram has one, flicker, facebook, amazon, รขย€ยฆ Most major sites that have some sort of twitter integration have their own shortener.
18:31 ๐Ÿ”— soultcer The Amazon one is just a Bitly Pro thing actually
18:32 ๐Ÿ”— soultcer When you go to bitly and shorten and amazon.com link, you won't get a bit.ly/XXX link, but an amzn.to/XXX link
18:56 ๐Ÿ”— swebb Ahh
18:56 ๐Ÿ”— swebb It's possible that many shorteners are using the bit.ly DNS trick.
18:57 ๐Ÿ”— swebb Does amzn.to/xxx = bit.ly/xxx ?
19:16 ๐Ÿ”— soultcer Yes
19:16 ๐Ÿ”— soultcer But not bit.ly/XXX = amzn.to/XXX
19:17 ๐Ÿ”— soultcer It's not a DNS trick, they are paying for Bitly Pro (or Enterprise or whatever they call it)
19:17 ๐Ÿ”— soultcer http://www.enterprise.bitly.com/products/
19:57 ๐Ÿ”— swebb It looks like anyone can make a custom domain under their bit.ly account. I made one and it works: http://www.evernote.com/shard/s41/sh/f5d00bd0-7bdd-45b4-a000-119ba00ce74a/28e0d7aef6ceb1dbc07a97ee64c7f0c6
19:58 ๐Ÿ”— swebb Where custom_domain/xxx = bit.ly/xxx
19:58 ๐Ÿ”— swebb You don't have to sign up for the enterprise account.
19:58 ๐Ÿ”— swebb Just make a cname in DNS and you're up and running.
20:21 ๐Ÿ”— soultcer But the difference is that when someone shortens an amazon.com on bitly, it will become an amzn.to url.
20:21 ๐Ÿ”— soultcer *an amazon.com URL
20:41 ๐Ÿ”— swebb Ahh.
20:41 ๐Ÿ”— swebb Understood.

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