TinyURL appeared to have the hard crash today, causing significant disruption for loads of Twitter users, and untold others, who have come to rely on the service. Twitter has been experiencing issues with TinyURL lately. Today's outage prompted this message from Twitter Status:
The automatic shortening of URLs via tinyurl is removed for the time being due to problems with that service. Alternatives being looked at.
For all those Twitter/TinyURL addicts out there, here are some alternatives to TinyURL to get you by (in no particular order and with no guarantees of reliability):
http://www.dwarfurl.com/ - free click tracking
http://urltea.com/ - add optional comment/tag to the link
http://traceurl.com/ - free click tracking
http://shorl.com/ - free click tracking
UPDATE: A related story and some additional alternatives:
TinyURL Outage Illustrates the Service's Risks
http://elfurl.com/- free click tracking
http://snurl.com/ - free click tracking
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