Comments on: Is Bit.ly’s Twitter advantage unfair?

By: Internet Marketing Success Stories

Internet Marketing Success Stories — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:53:51 +0000

Great post! My friend runs a small business we do internet marketing for companies and so a lot of our e-newsletter, blog and seminar content revolve around for promotion. Thanks!!!

By: Suzy Orman

Suzy Orman — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 06:45:06 +0000

I agree the natural growth of the small business will be be far more profitable for the founders than seeking a cash injection for which they are may sell their future.

By: anamericancynic

anamericancynic — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 11:31:11 +0000

First of all, if you think we live in a free market society you are kidding yourself.

However, life and mostly business is not fair, especially in a fascist regime, I mean a free market society. If they don’t like it do what everyone else does… Get a lawyer and go to court.

By: CBFE

CBFE — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:05:06 +0000

I find this article to be indicative of so much that is wrong with the tech economy.

Twitter is already fairly useless and is usually nothing more than a way to waste time. Not to mention that it is still unprofitable. Yet it receives ridiculous amounts of hype.

We’re not even talking about Twitter here though, we’re talking about companies that essentially act as parasites on Twitter.

And this kind of “innovation” is the future of the American economy? And this is the attitude they bring? Whatever happened to the real, physical economy??

I expound on my views on my blog, which you can find here:

http://cbfe-econ.blogspot.com/2009/08/tw itter-and-its-parasites.html

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:10:31 +0000

Short url’s come in very handy, especially with affiliate advertising.

By: Jason

Jason — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:57:21 +0000

Tr.im was back online before this article was even published. Get with the times people…

By: Peter Kelley

Peter Kelley — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:29:42 +0000

Excuse me, but if the point is to shorten URLs as much as possible, wouldn’t Bit.ly and even more so Tr.im have an obvious advantage over TinyURL.com based purely on their own shorter URLs? Let the shortest man win here, is what I’m thinking.

By: Ibrahim

Ibrahim — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 15:38:31 +0000

I think the point is, tr.im was/is a better service than bit.ly – but since Twitter gives special status to the latter, even a superior product couldn’t compete.

By: S.V.Ramanan

S.V.Ramanan — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 09:10:42 +0000

In business, you kill or get killed.Period.

By: LC

LC — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 22:52:33 +0000

Fair? Twitter is free to enter into whatever relationship they feel is in the best interest of their customers. Tr.im and others need to look at other services and relationships. If they did not land the “Mcdonald’s” client they need to go after others. If they can not make a go of it they should move on. And Tr.im customers should not complain about the demise of their URL service when they get it for free. Not only is there a “business welfare class” but there is a “consumer welfare class” of people that expect everything for free.