{"id":2206,"date":"2009-02-04T10:19:40","date_gmt":"2009-02-04T15:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/2009\/02\/04\/trim-is-very-nice\/"},"modified":"2009-02-04T10:19:40","modified_gmt":"2009-02-04T15:19:40","slug":"trim-is-very-nice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/2009\/02\/04\/trim-is-very-nice\/","title":{"rendered":"tr.im is very nice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you, dear readers, probably know, I send a fair amount of links out in Twitter (I mean, you&#8217;re <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/cote\/\">following me in Twitter over on @cote<\/a>&#8230;right?). With a 140 character limit, you have to compress your URLs, many of which can be over 140 characters themselves, not to mention needing spare characters to add commentary to the links.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve long used the old standby, TinyURL.com to get, well, TinyURLs. Recently, I found and started using another service, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tr.im\">tr.im<\/a> (that&#8217;s right, the domain name is just &#8220;tr.im&#8221;). I haven&#8217;t checked out other URL shortners, but I&#8217;m really linking this tr.im service because it has tracking numbers for each URL, e.g.:<\/p>\n<p class=\"pic\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cote\/3247253095\/\" title=\"tr.im is pretty nice! by cote, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3304\/3247253095_e06d4e1f69.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"326\" alt=\"tr.im is pretty nice!\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s also geo-tracking and referral tracking, and graphs if you&#8217;re into those:<\/p>\n<p class=\"pic\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cote\/3252665649\/\" title=\"tr.im graphs by cote, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3327\/3252665649_4513f75a07.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"343\" alt=\"tr.im graphs\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been interesting, and fun, this week to watch which Twitter&#8217;ed links people click on. For example, <a href=\"http:\/\/theagileexecutive.com\/2009\/02\/01\/can-you-afford-the-software-you-are-developing\/\">this one has been the most popular so far<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As with all of these URL shortners, there&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/tr.im\/download\">a bookmarklet<\/a> and even <a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/10232\/\">a Firefox extension<\/a>, though the second seems to have flaked out on me, which is fine: the bookmarklet is plenty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>tr.im is a great URL shortner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,35],"tags":[780,788],"class_list":["post-2206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-software","category-the-analyst-life","tag-trim","tag-twitter"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}