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    URL Obfuscation

    There are a number of sites that have jumped up to allow you to use a URL for the site to point to your own.  Many of these are for allowing you to use smaller URLs for what could otherwise be a lengthy path.  Of these tinyurl.com seems to be the most popular, a free, ad-sponsored site that litters twitter feeds.   Reducing the amount of characters in a database can save a considerable amount of space, according to how many links you have.  It can also allow you to paste links that you otherwise wouldn’t be able to use in sites that don’t allow enough characters for lengthy URLs.…