Continuing updates: Cli.gs gets a temporary stay of execution. Keep watching for further news — I may end up making these changes after all, but for now I’ll wait and see.
The Cli.gs URL shortening service is due to be closed down on Sunday, October 25th. At this time, the service will stop accepting new short URLs and generating statistics, but will continue to forward visitors at least through the end of November.
What does this mean for WP to Twitter?
Shortly before October 25th, I will release a very important update to WP to Twitter which will encompass the following changes:
- I will remove support for new Cli.gs shortened URLs.
- To continue offering choice, I will add support for at least one additional shortener.
- Users with Cli.gs as their selected shortener will be given a choice what shortener they’d like to switch to.
- If no choice is made, users will be switched to un-shortened URLs
Additionally, I aim to add support for custom shortened URLs – URLs shortened on your own domain. However, this may not happen by October 25th.
Joe Dolson
; April 28, 2010 at 3:08 pmCli.gs was not shut down; the old cli.gs URLs continue to point where they always have.
Terry
; April 28, 2010 at 2:38 pmI’d like to change url, but can you now answer what happened with old cli.gs URL’s already created?
Bezdep
; March 6, 2010 at 2:41 pmI have the same problems as jeff/ I also can’t add short link to the bit.ly account. This are problems with server?
P.S. sorry for my bad english.
jeff c
; January 14, 2010 at 12:14 pmI went ahead and attempted to tweet a new WP post using bit.ly, it gave me a short URL, but it added a parenthesis to my original URL resulting in a 404 error. It also did not register the short link to my bit.ly account, so I can’t edit it. My server is running PHP 5. I don’t know if the problem is in the plug-in or on my server. Any thoughts?
Thanks.