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Tr.im gives up and shuts down
Nambu also appears to be experience sour grapes over Twitter's decision to use Bit.ly as its default link shortener. The Tr.im blog says that "Twitter has all but sapped us of any last energy to double-down and develop tr.im further. What is the point? With bit.ly the Twitter default, and with us having no inside connection to Twitter, tr.im will lose over the the long-run no matter how good it may or may not be at this moment, or in the future."
It's a crowded field, and some players eventually had to be pushed out, but it's a shame to see Tr.im go. I think it was a better product than Bit.ly in some ways, and I'm all for competition and user choice. Too bad Nambu doesn't feel the same way.
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Subscribe to commentsPaul is A ChapelAug 10th 2009 1:15AM
Tr.im is so much more catchy. That REALLY sucks. Bit.ly? What's a "bitly?"
StemAug 10th 2009 5:06AM
I've always used is.gd instead of bit.ly; that extra available character can make all the difference!
Aniruddh DodiyaAug 10th 2009 5:20AM
Well I read somewhere that using 3rd party short url service is a big mistake..until now i was also using the services like tiny url, bit.ly, tr.im but now it's time to think. what if these services out of business, you never know then your hard earnest url that you posted in different services like twitter, face book all handwork gonna blow in a second..
Now It's time to think to create our own url forwarding service..
feraligatr8Aug 10th 2009 7:17AM
but trim was like the shortest one!!!!!! :(
PeterAug 10th 2009 8:50AM
"I'm all for competition and user choice." - Me too, but when all the services are free and don't have any business model for making money it eventually comes down to personal preference.
Maybe now people will begin to understand that everything on the Internet can't be free and good services and useful information are worth paying for. Just like good service and useful information in the "real world."
mike k.Aug 10th 2009 8:57AM
Holy crap I hope the domain doesn't get bought by spammers who redirect all the old links to porn or trojan sites.
neofolkloreAug 10th 2009 10:31AM
the person that gets the domain doesn't get the database.
David432111Aug 10th 2009 11:34AM
@neofolklore
Though they could still easily make anyone who visits tr.im from any link redirect to a different site.
worstpizzaAug 10th 2009 10:46AM
there is always http://pie.im
Jash SayaniAug 10th 2009 1:27PM
WTF?? I just studied the whole API and spent hours designing my app.
Lesson Learnt: Make apps for your own service. Even services like AOL Xdrive can shut down at any time. Google Notebook was a shock too.
Really shocking.