Fun little site based on Twitter API

[rsynnott]

http://twitterbuzz.com shows what sites (or URLs) people are
mentioning most on Twitter. It's fairly simple right now, but I think
the results are sort of interesting.
Rob.

[Christopher Kinniburgh]

If the site could find out what was being linked to by tinyurl and
other such sites it would be more useful but still quite an
interesting start!

On Mar 18, 9:02 pm, "rsynnott" <rsynn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> http://twitterbuzz.comshows what sites (or URLs) people are

[Robert Synnott]

On 3/19/07, Christopher Kinniburgh <ckinn...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> If the site could find out what was being linked to by tinyurl and
> other such sites it would be more useful but still quite an
> interesting start!
>

Yep, that's one feature I'm planning to add soon, along with
performance of individual sites over time.
Rob

[Alex Payne]

Cool hack!

I'm not sure Tinyurl has a "reverse API," if you will. Their
existing one that we talk to for long/odd links is undocumented.
Sure would be handy, though.

--
Alex Payne
Obvious
http://twitter.com/al3x

[Rick Measham]

Alex Payne wrote:
> I'm not sure Tinyurl has a "reverse API," if you will. Their existing
> one that we talk to for long/odd links is undocumented. Sure would be
> handy, though.

You don't need a reverse API .. request the URL using some tool that
doesn't follow redirects. You'll get back a 301 (Moved permanently)
status and a Location header, which is the real location. Example follows.

Cheers!
Rick Measham

rickm@lugtop:~$ telnet tinyurl.com 80
Trying 85.255.210.131...
Connected to tinyurl.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
HEAD http://tinyurl.com/36caqv HTTP/1.1
Host: tinyurl.com

HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.1
Location:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/wsy/pub/rss/1.0/-/persian/iran/story/2007/03/070318_mv-jazayeri-arrest.shtml
Content-type: text/html
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 04:53:22 GMT
Server: TinyURL/1.5

Connection closed by foreign host.

[Remy Sharp]

Hi there - I've just written a little online API that will either
convert to tinyurls on the fly, or reverse them out for you.

For example, I've tinyurl'ed this page to http://tinyurl.com/ysebeg

And below is the URL being reversed.

http://remysharp.com/tinyurlapi?url=tinyurl.com/ysebeg

I wrote it for a Twitter app that's still in the making...but figured
it would be useful to others.