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Switching to Impulse: Social Media Gets Faster

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We’ve recently had an obsession with brevity in the form of Twitter, and shortened URLs for example. I’ve already talked about Posterous which is an amazing tool that lets you post almost any kind of file to almost any social network, blog, etc simply by emailing it to your unique Posterous address.

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Is That DM Link Safe?

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With Twitter’s 140-character limit, which generally forces shortened URLs, it is impossible to tell at a glance if a link is safe. Unless you use a URL lengthener, an application that restores the original link based on a shortened link from bit.ly, is.gd, tinyurl, etc. But shortened URLs pose many problems.

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