mack - 11:50 pm on Nov 25, 2009 (gmt 0)

Other that Twitter, what purpose do they really serve? On a web page url length doesn't matter, its the anchor that's shown. In emails there is no size constraints.

I don't like shortners simply because they hide the destination. I got an sms from my phone company containing a short url. I didn't even open the link because the message could technically have come from anywhere.

Mack.