In writing my first Wordpress plugin this weekend I was doing research to learn the Wordpress way of doing things and I remembered a post from earlier this week that talked about the issues with TinyURL. To be fair, I’ve never much cared for TinyURL but I use it more with my Twitter account (since it’s the default for long urls). The above link provides instructions for a much better way to handle your links in Twitter.

Basically, you want to link to your posts using your dynamic url of:

http://www.ashbuckles.com/?p=216

which will redirect to:

http://www.ashbuckles.com/plugins/retweet

Like others, I’m a little nervous about relying on a 3rd party url service to deliver visitors to my site – for as long as I decide to have my site published. I’m also nervous about redirecting links from other sites whereas a redirect from within my site can be controlled in the future, if required.

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