>Its basically like a URL shortener shutting down
Did anything major happened after some of the early URL shorteners died? We survived just fine.
Did anything major happened after some of the early URL shorteners died? We survived just fine.
Yes, we "survive," but that's a pretty lame measurement of the impact. URL shorteners leave a bevy of broken links everywhere, linking to content that is now lost somewhere on the net, twitpic's departure leaves use with a big hole of the social web empty. Thousands of tweets are now without context.