Twitter API ToS To Force Routing Clicks To Twitter

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday June 10, 2010 @12:47AM from the too-big-for-their-britches dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Twitter has announced that it will change the way it handles URLs in tweets. This has been widely reported, including the likely consequences for bit.ly. What has not received much attention, and was not in the official blog announcement (but in the Google Twitter developers mailing list instead) is that the Terms of Service for all applications that use the Twitter API will be changed to require that any click on a URL in a tweet be routed through a Twitter gateway, allowing Twitter to see exactly which links are followed and by whom."

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Re:Only a TWIT would use Twitter by ElKry · 2010-06-10 07:42 · Score: 0, Troll

"I'm heading to Ikea later today. Anyone want to come?"
How very naive of you. It would be "Headn 2 ikea l8r, n1 come?". When mentioning brevity and succinctness, keep in mind what sms and IM did to the English (and any other) language.