Comments on: WordPress Ugly Permalink as Short URL for Twitter-ing

By: More Short URLs for the Copy Short URL Add-on | fredericiana

More Short URLs for the Copy Short URL Add-on | fredericiana — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 17:32:43 +0000

[...] a little sad that the auto-generated short URLs on self-hosted WordPress instances are so ugly, and they are not really short enough to use them easily on twitter or with other [...]

By: r00m

r00m — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 20:15:43 +0000

Thanks for the great tip!

By: Vincent

Vincent — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 06:39:19 +0000

@crayoncrisis: I’m unaware of that. Damien’s sample tweet looks fine to me.

By: Damien Riley

Damien Riley — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 17:37:28 +0000

This absolutely worked for me. I’ll keep an eye on it and see if crayoncrisis’ issue is still valid. Thanks! I wanted a homemade Twitter button and the long permalinks were causing an issue for me. View the end product here: http://twitter.com/rileycentral/status/18135259893
(Damien Riley´s blog – The Oatmeal aka Matthew Inman – online genius)

By: crayoncrisis

crayoncrisis — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 10:45:30 +0000

Great idea. But it looks like Twitter now changed the way it displays hyperlinks and cuts it off before the question mark.

By: Brad

Brad — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 18:31:07 +0000

One question though… with regards to TweetMeme…does it also track those ugly URLs or does the Tweetmeme assigned URL (e.g. bit.ly/sample) have to be tweeted for it to be checked?

By: kauai

kauai — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 03:29:16 +0000

The mac has a great multiple clipboard tool called CopyPaste Pro that has a link shortener built in so you just highlight click a button and you have the short URL in the clipboard to paste anywhere.
http://www.scriptsoftware.com/copypaste

Also it is just as essential as the clipboard itself. Seriously useful.

By: Rich Schmidt

Rich Schmidt — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 14:43:56 +0000

Thanks for the idea! I was planning to use that short url plugin you mentioned, but I was wondering how to go about making it automatic for users to tweet it… and your solution looks perfect!

My reason for doing it is what Vincent already mentioned in his earlier comment: even if they don’t click on it, your domain is in front of them. Excellent!

By: Marc

Marc — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 12:32:45 +0000

Yes, it needs to get posted immediately from frequent daily posts for one particular site of mine. Timing is sometimes critical and Twitter makes the notification lightning fast, in most cases.

By: Vincent

Vincent — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 06:45:25 +0000

You mean tools like twitterfeed? If yes, I personally thinks that it is more personal to tweet your blog post yourself, instead of using a bot.

Wouldn’t be a heavy task, unless you blog very frequent, say tens in a day.