Dave Winer Hacks Twitter's New URL Shortener

Dave Winer:

Scripting News: Ain't "fat" tweets sweet? (they were): 1. Twitter has a new url-shortener, called t.co.  2. When it displays a tweet with a url that was shortened by t.co, it expands the url, so you get to see the url it is pointing to. That way you know in advance where you're going. This is a good thing, it's one of the nice things about the web that url-shortening screws with. 3. But t.co doesn't check to see that the thing you're shortening is actually a url. You can...