Evildoing Spammers Discover TinyURL and Other URL-Shorteners
Twitter is no stranger to spam, so it shouldn't be of any great surprise that spammers are hitting one of tweeters' favorite utilities. According to the New York Times' Bits blog, URL-shortening services like TinyURL and Bit.ly have unintentionally provided spammers with a veil to cover the ugly face of their shady activities. By copy-and-pasting a Web address (a.k.a. URL) into one of these ...









