You know how URL shortcuts like bit.ly and is.gd always feel like they’re looking down their noses at you and your links?
Well, it’s not just in your head. They’d all so much rather be processing truncated links to fancy URLs like profiles of vegan food trucks and In Treatment episode recaps than wasting their resources on cat videos and delusional sightings of time travelers in silent movies.
Snooty site-based apps.
Thankfully, their days of judging us and our tweet-sized links are over. We now have Bu.tt. A URL shortener for the rest of us!
The service comes from creator John McKinnon and the good people of the Trinidad and Tobago domain registry. The service’s catch phrase: “The URL shortener that kicks it.” Classic. And the “B” in the logo looks like a certain part of the human anatomy with lipstick on it.
There is no possible way this service could look down on anything that anyone would ever post.
Finally, I am free to tweet and IM without worrying if tiny.cc thinks my link to a video of grown man getting kicked in the testicles by someone dressed as a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle is worthy of being disseminated to the internet. See: http://bu.tt/9xi
via TechCrunch
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