Never underestimate the power of two-way sync and large social networks. A week ago, MySpace turned on two-way sync with Twitter, allowing members to post their status updates to Twitter directly from MySpace. Those updates appear in Twitter with a short link back to MySpace, using MySpace’s own link shortener, “http://lnk.ms/.”
MySpace status updates are now flooding Twitter. Those MySpace short links account for 17 percent of all passed links on Twitter, according to Tweetmeme, making it the No. 2 link shortener after bit.ly, which rules with 68 percent. The day of the launch, lnk.ms accounted for 8.56 percent of all passed links on Twitter. MySpace has had its own short URL for about six months, but it’s only now taking off with two-way sync.
The MySpace short links can be used for any URL, but it is the status updates which seem to be what they are being used for the most. So that’s not really a huge threat to bit.ly, even if it does represent a large and growing volume of short links on Twitter. Not everyone can see those status updates once they click through. You typically have to be that person’s friend on MySpace to even see the update. But the proliferation of lnk.ms links does show how easy it is for a large service like MySpace to inject itself into the conversation on Twitter with a simple feature like two-way sync.
lol go to lnk.ms and look at the source code…
Not a place for spammer.
lol thats on homepage for lnk.ms
How ironic, in the context of this discussion it seems quite the reverse. FYI others, it’s some bad ASCII art that reads “myspace.com – not a place for spammers”
it’s the default figlet font: http://en.wikip...org/wiki/FIGlet.
Ah good ole figlet. Used to use it 10-15 years ago on IRC.
Myspace sucks though.
Myspace does suck and many people are starting to use Knoyce instead. It does the same crap http://bit.ly/ZPSX
Knoyce!
It’ sound from MySpace like: “We have lost the micro blogging war”
it feels like the community at myspace has come alive again, lots of bits an bobs coming into my twitter feed, friends i had almost forgot i had, I may even start taking more notice of myspace again.
Ye I think they can make somewhat of a comeback that Mike Jones guy seems to be moving it in a good direction. Let’s see if they keep iterating and do something alluring in the next 6 months
Mike Jones Rocks !
I hope Myspace continues to die a slow death. It’s only a matter of time.
Though no.2 on source of short links, this is not a good news at all.
lnk.ms has competition http://urlshort...efortwitter.com
I’m hoping this is a joke! How long do you want your short url to be? Ha
LOL – that’s the funniest thing i’ve seen all day.
That’s 16% of the interwebs I don’t want to see.
The online hipsters are sure not going to like this; the ghetto entering their domain.
Online hipsters? We use the anti-hip http://urlshort...efortwitter.com
“Those MySpace short links account for 17 percent of all passed links on Twitter”
Correction: MySpace short links account for 17 percent of the passed links from the top 5 link shorteners.
What share do these 5 represent?
Oh that’s neat isn’t it? There’s only one thing. Myspace really sucks.
I actually started using MySpace again last month. My buddies and I got sick of being harangued by distant relatives over every Facebook wall post.
It’s one thing when your aunt says “hi.” It’s another thing when she’s blanketing your wall with Bible verses in all caps.
Myspace sucks… there are other social networks you out there too you know?
What part of the underlying technical infrastructure is lacking?
I agree with comments. MySpace sucks and we experienced Tweeps don’t want to see that crap on Twitter.
Que? What “crap?” Links? You don’t want links? Such ghastly things, those links. Oh hey, 49% of your tweets are links.
http://mrtweet.com/dennisl
yes, nice start from Myspace.
What’s shocking is that Bit.ly amounts for almost three quarter of the short links on Twitter! Popular service…
Twitter sucks totally. Too much friggin’ spam and DMs on my phone from stupid bots and marketers. Musicians now flooding the place screaming FOLLOW ME while they send their stupid little @replies to each other and ignore the fans while thinking fans care what they have for breakfast … Twitter will be dead in another year and the dumb-assed 30 percent of the pop that uses it will be saying “What were we thinking?” while the 70 percent of smart people will be out there earning their moolah.