SHRINKING URLS - Blessing or Curse?

Dear Friends:



We have decided to use a special service to shrink our urls for more effective twittering. The url is the fancy (but oftimes lengthy) http://...etc...etc/... address that you, the innocent and curious reader, click upon to access an article or website in cyberspace.


Just for the sake of wholesome scientific experimentation, click on http://twitlik.com/808 and see what you get.


The service that provides this "instant url circumcision" capability for us is http://twitlik.com/ . We do not endorse them, or pass on their merits. Their name even sounds remotely vulgar. The truncation process is painless, though, even without an anesthetic.


But one has to wonder...is a shorter url a better url?


Speaking for myself (as I sometimes do), I prefer the lengthy old-style url...it contained so much information...it had character...it was a bit like a "sneak preview," whereas these newfangled shortened urls leave us clueless as to their content and origin.


For the sake of contrast, here's an old-fashioned url that I particularly like:
http://thenationalnetworkerweblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/irrelevant-post.html.



As you can see, it carries a wealth of information and intrigue.



Perhaps, as they say on at least one late-night television commercial, "bigger IS better."



Faithfully,



Douglas Castle

p.s. Here are useless SEO terms which have no bearing on this article: shrinking urls, Twitter, SrMeetUp Blog, TNNW Articles, Elaine Ingis, Adam J. Kovitz, IEP, Tweets, progress, social media, size matters, blessing, curse, Angels & Demons, Brangelina, google, yahoo, msn, Topper, My Little Margie, spiders, American Idol, Leave it to Beaver, Make Millions While You Sleep.

THE NATIONAL NETWORKER (TNNW):
PRESS OUR BUTTONS & CLICK OUR LINKS...