Comments on: Shortened URLs http://twitterwatchdog.com/2009/08/06/shortened-urls/ "Watching out for you, one tweet at a time" Wed, 05 Oct 2011 22:04:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Lauren Blaine http://twitterwatchdog.com/2009/08/06/shortened-urls/comment-page-1/#comment-1608 Lauren Blaine Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:57:55 +0000 http://twitterwatchdog.com/?p=1418#comment-1608 Helloooo Al and Skeeter! Yeah, that WOT site is very cool. Is it done by Panda? I looked up Twitter! It said that it was alright. ;) By the way, did you guys know about u.nu ? That's the whole URL of this shortening service. Pretty short, alright! You guys have a GREAT weekend! Love @cha, @LaurenBlaine Helloooo Al and Skeeter!

Yeah, that WOT site is very cool. Is it done by Panda? I looked up Twitter! It said that it was alright. ;)

By the way, did you guys know about u.nu ? That’s the whole URL of this shortening service. Pretty short, alright!

You guys have a GREAT weekend!

Love @cha,
@LaurenBlaine

]]> By: Al Ferretti http://twitterwatchdog.com/2009/08/06/shortened-urls/comment-page-1/#comment-1167 Al Ferretti Sat, 10 Oct 2009 17:17:45 +0000 http://twitterwatchdog.com/?p=1418#comment-1167 You're welcome Martin. Did you see the link in Kimmo's comment with regards to shortened URLS? http://www.mywot.com/ -Al @alferretti You’re welcome Martin.

Did you see the link in Kimmo’s comment with regards to shortened URLS?

http://www.mywot.com/

-Al
@alferretti

]]> By: Al Ferretti http://twitterwatchdog.com/2009/08/06/shortened-urls/comment-page-1/#comment-1165 Al Ferretti Sat, 10 Oct 2009 17:15:41 +0000 http://twitterwatchdog.com/?p=1418#comment-1165 Hi Kimmo, Thanks for sharing http://www.mywot.com I did not know about that one, going to check out now. Where should we send you the check? :-) Have a great day my friend~ -Al @alferretti Hi Kimmo,

Thanks for sharing http://www.mywot.com

I did not know about that one, going to check out now.
Where should we send you the check? :-)

Have a great day my friend~

-Al
@alferretti

]]> By: Al Ferretti http://twitterwatchdog.com/2009/08/06/shortened-urls/comment-page-1/#comment-1151 Al Ferretti Sat, 10 Oct 2009 16:46:00 +0000 http://twitterwatchdog.com/?p=1418#comment-1151 Hey Paul, We believe in time as twitter evolves further that we will see more tools to help us with shortened URLs from a security standpoint. -Al @alferretti http://twitterwatchdog.com Hey Paul,

We believe in time as twitter evolves further that we will see more tools to help us with shortened URLs from a security standpoint.

-Al
@alferretti
http://twitterwatchdog.com

]]> By: Martin http://twitterwatchdog.com/2009/08/06/shortened-urls/comment-page-1/#comment-1063 Martin Tue, 06 Oct 2009 10:09:31 +0000 http://twitterwatchdog.com/?p=1418#comment-1063 It's pretty scary to click URLs that are shortened - you wouldn't know what to expect. Anyway, thanks Al and Skeeter for the information =) It’s pretty scary to click URLs that are shortened – you wouldn’t know what to expect. Anyway, thanks Al and Skeeter for the information =)

]]> By: Kimmo Linkama http://twitterwatchdog.com/2009/08/06/shortened-urls/comment-page-1/#comment-1061 Kimmo Linkama Tue, 06 Oct 2009 09:26:40 +0000 http://twitterwatchdog.com/?p=1418#comment-1061 Approaching the problem from another angle: I use Web of Trust (WOT) that can be downloaded as a Firefox add-on at http://www.mywot.com/ The service warns about suspicious content on the site a URL points to before letting you in. You can, however, should you so wish. As far as I can tell, their database is pretty well up to date. You can also rate sites on a number of criteria yourself. The service accumulates these user ratings and uses them to further determine the target site's reliability. At the moment, they claim to have more than 24 million sites rated. (Full disclosure: I am just a happy user, not affiliated to the service in any way.) Approaching the problem from another angle: I use Web of Trust (WOT) that can be downloaded as a Firefox add-on at http://www.mywot.com/

The service warns about suspicious content on the site a URL points to before letting you in. You can, however, should you so wish. As far as I can tell, their database is pretty well up to date.

You can also rate sites on a number of criteria yourself. The service accumulates these user ratings and uses them to further determine the target site’s reliability. At the moment, they claim to have more than 24 million sites rated.

(Full disclosure: I am just a happy user, not affiliated to the service in any way.)

]]> By: Paul J. G. http://twitterwatchdog.com/2009/08/06/shortened-urls/comment-page-1/#comment-961 Paul J. G. Thu, 01 Oct 2009 05:32:52 +0000 http://twitterwatchdog.com/?p=1418#comment-961 That's awesome. I have been very weary about clicking on links sent by other tweeters. Now I can open my trust to them a little more knowing that Twitter is fighting the war on spammers. Thanks Al and Skeeter. Keep up the great job you are doing to keep Twitter safe and entertaining. That’s awesome. I have been very weary about clicking on links sent by other tweeters. Now I can open my trust to them a little more knowing that Twitter is fighting the war on spammers. Thanks Al and Skeeter. Keep up the great job you are doing to keep Twitter safe and entertaining.

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