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January 2009
Run Your Own TinyURL Service With Phurl - NETTUTS
by delavigne & 1 otherRun Your Own TinyURL Service With Phurl
Jan 13th in Other by Thord Hedengren
URL shortening services are a must if microblogging services like Twitter are to work. In 140 characters, you don't want the URL you're linking to eating up 100 of them. Or worse, it might not even fit. Enter TinyURL, and a bunch of other services that give you a shorter custom URL pointing to the target site. But why not roll your own, using Phurl? Let's do it!
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