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Certain websites, such as Flickr, Amazon, and YouTube, offer their own URL shortening services for use on Twitter.
Usually, these shortened links come either from their post-to-Twitter feature or from one of their official Twitter accounts. It's not easy to transform one of their regular links into a shortened one yourself. The easiest sites, such as Amazon, simply require copying an identifier from the URL; other sites, such as Flickr, require extracting the short URL from somewhere in the document. This can be a lot of work to do manually.
So, I wrote a service to do it for me. Originally, it only did Flickr (the hardest one); later, I refactored it to support many different websites and their shorteners.
The current version supports these websites and their shorteners, listed here in alphabetical order by name:
MD5 and SHA1 signatures were created using EasyHash.
If you want to contribute bug-fixes or enhancements to the Shorten URLs service, the easiest way to do that is to clone the Mercurial repository for the Shorten URLs service. To do this, type this command into a terminal:
hg clone https://bitbucket.org/boredzo/shorten-urls-service
I provide the Shorten URLs service—the application, and its source code—under a three-clause BSD license. For more information, see the file named LICENSE.txt that comes with it.
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