{"id":246,"date":"2009-08-10T11:29:21","date_gmt":"2009-08-10T10:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/?p=246"},"modified":"2009-08-15T14:21:20","modified_gmt":"2009-08-15T13:21:20","slug":"tr-im-to-be-shut-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/2009\/08\/10\/tr-im-to-be-shut-down\/","title":{"rendered":"tr.im to be shut down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To emphasize my demurs against URL shortening services which I have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/2005\/05\/20\/short-urls-future-loss-of-knowlege\/\">mentioned<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/2009\/06\/17\/url-shortening-services-soon-to-be-under-siege\/\">before<\/a>, here comes the prove that my thesis is correct: the URL shortening service <a href=\"http:\/\/tr.im\/\">tr.im<\/a> is <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tr.im\/post\/159489555\/tr-im-to-december-31-2009\">going to be shut down by end of this year<\/a>. As <a href=\"http:\/\/scobleizer.com\/\">Robert Scoble<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/scobleizer.com\/2009\/08\/10\/twitters-platform-shortcomings\/\">put it<\/a>, this is a &#8220;shortcoming&#8221; of the <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/\">Twitter <\/a>platform, where the shutdown most likely will be felt most.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first time I am aware of actual knowledge\/data-loss which will occur due to the shutdown of such a service.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> tr.im <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tr.im\/post\/160697842\/tr-im-resurrected\">announced that they will stay in business<\/a>, due to an overwhelming response. But still, the final shutdown of such a service sooner or latter can and will happen. And even worse would be the continuation of such a service where all the URLs would be redirected somewhere else&#8230;<\/p>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"overflow: hidden; position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 60px; width: 1px; height: 1px;\">http:\/\/blog.tr.im\/post\/160697842\/tr-im-resurrected<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To emphasize my demurs against URL shortening services which I have mentioned before, here comes the prove that my thesis is correct: the URL shortening service tr.im is going to be shut down by end of this year. As Robert Scoble put it, this is a &#8220;shortcoming&#8221; of the Twitter platform, where the shutdown most &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/2009\/08\/10\/tr-im-to-be-shut-down\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;tr.im to be shut down&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[228,224,206],"class_list":["post-246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advocacy","category-internet","tag-advocacy","tag-internet","tag-url-shortening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":255,"href":"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions\/255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}