On: Tr.im is now in the process of discontinuing service

[dannyr]

These Url shorteners became popular because of Twitter. Twitter should handle links differently (e.g. not count Urls against the 140 char limit).

[slig → dannyr]

twitter should have their own url shortener.

[wmeredith → slig]

I believe they do and it's called bit.ly...

[tlrobinson → dannyr]

Ironically bit.ly thinks tr.im is spam: http://bit.ly/2JXXZ

[joshu → tlrobinson]

Most systems HAVE to mark shorteners as spam, given their use.

Can you think of reasonable and serious reason to shorten another shortener?

[goodkarma → tlrobinson]

I thought that was pretty ironic too

[jorgeortiz85 → dannyr]

SMS doesn't care what kind of characters you're sending.

[TweedHeads → jorgeortiz85]

SMS can't click on links either, so just send the word LINK and get done with it.

[natrius → TweedHeads]

You can click on a link in a text message even on my dumbphone.

[nir → natrius]

Why not just put a URL shortener on the SMS interface, where it doesn't matter much if the shortener service dies anyway, and leave the original URL on the web interface.