Pingie: HTTP:: MySpace Two Way Twitter Sync Causes a Surge of New Tweets

HTTP:: MySpace Two Way Twitter Sync Causes a Surge of New Tweets
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Everyone roots for the underdog and with enough hype you start to believe that the little guy can really threaten the established players. But every so often you are reminded that most of the times size does matter and MySpace demonstrated this handily when it unveiled the two-way sync feature with Twitter last week. The feature allowed MySpace users to tweet out their status messages and vice-versa and, maybe not that surprisingly, the social network has now become the second largest source for short links on the microblogging site. Using data from Tweetmeme, TechCrunch found that MySpace's URL shortener, lnk.ms, rose up the ranks to become the second most popular shortener on Twitter with 17 percent of the entire links passed around originating from MySpace. Today it has dropped to almost 14 percent but still enough to maintain its second position. To put this into perspective, Bit.ly, the URL shortening service used by Twitter by default, dominates the market with a s!
hare of around 70 percent followed by other established players with considerably smaller slices. TinyURL, which has been around for years and is one of the original services of its kind, only manages around 10 percent but that is still significantly higher than the rest, which hover at below 3 percent. In one f...
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