Compressed URLs Failing

[engine]

Have you noticed the number of times the url shorteners have failed to connect recently. Or is it just me.

[ogletree]

I have seen a few in twitter that did not work.

[bakedjake]

There have been more rumblings lately from disgruntled webmasters about blocking tinyurl and its brethren.

[piatkow]

I know that a supplier of short urls dropped out of that market recently. Haven't noticed any problems with Tinyurl but I seldom have occasion to use them myself.

[engine]

Identification of the destination is another issue of concern. It's too easy to drop spammy, trojan-loaded junk into one of those.