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There has been lots of talk lately about Twitter, TinyURL, and other URL shortening services. To me the solution is obvious....

• Twitter develops their own URL shortening service. Shouldn't be hard, such scripts can be purchased for $10...
• Twitter adjusts their software, so that when they check the length of any tweet, the first URL is counted as just 7 characters
• URLs embedded in tweets just appear like this uGT5ER7 - with the u denoting it is a Twitter short URL
• If Twitter also launched a browser toolbar, with a big button for Tweet This Page, which automatically embedded a short URL for the page you are visiting, then the process is complete

By doing so, Twitter could gather data on which pages online were being tweeted the most, and the click through rate.

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