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by mitchellhislop 5857 days ago
An update was posted, 3rd party link shorteners are allowed. They will just have to compete.

So, not a Digg-bar. Its what many users want-they put a long ugly link in, and then it gets shorter.

Not the end of bit.ly. Why? Publishers want these numbers, not to give them to twitter.