Talk:TinyURL
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[edit] People behind it
Just wondered if anyone had any info on the people who set it up in the first pace? CharlesC 10:17, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Expiry
Can someone include a definative answer as to whether or not TINYURL's ever expire?
- "By entering in a URL in the text field below, we will create a tiny URL that will not break in email postings and never expires." --Sketchee 06:19, July 11, 2005 (UTC)
The title seems wrong, I think? Should it not be TinyURL if it is referring to the actual service, even though it is becoming genericised? --Coffeelover 23:07, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
TinyURLs do not expire. They simply keep adding new keys to the database. And since each key has 36 possible combinations per character (letters and numbers), they have a lot of permutations in just five characters, which is what they currently use. They could easily go up to six at some point in the future. --Cyde Weys 21:50, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Reputation
Would it be fitting to put in some info about the infamous reputation of tinyurl urls leading to shock sites, as people can hide the urls of the shocksites behind a tinyurl?
[edit] Blocked
Just wanted to let people know that this is the last time tinyurl was linked .... I wrote a makeshift cry of desperation
Homage to Tinyurl
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
*beating the ground with bare hands*
*how could they*
How could they?
My precious....
My precious tinyurl... gone ... gone never to be linked again
It's been there to link to sadness
It's been there to link to happiness
... and now... gone....
~tinyurl fan
[edit] Problems and suggestions about banning tinyurl
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Spam_blacklist#tinyurl http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Spam_blacklist#More_suggestions_about_tinyurl Travb 16:48, 21 February 2006 (UTC) Does anybody know why Wiki bans its use on pages? Baffles me.
[edit] Easter Eggs
I removed the Easter Egsg section as there are no Easter Eggs on TinyURL made by the "creator" (myself) as was incorrectly mentioned in the article. Early on the TinyURLs created were sequential and predictable on what the next one would be. This changed when they became 5 letter TinyURLs and it's now random. Since they were predictable, some people did create interesting, and in some cases politically biased, TinyURLs. If the easter egg section gets added back, please clarify that they were not "hard-coded" or put there by the creators of TinyURL and any political or other statements being made by these are not representative of the views of the people that run the TinyURL service. It'd also be recommended to list ones that are not swear words. UniGilby 19:17, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
