Endpoint Resolver: Getting tinyurl out of the Twitter stream

URL shortening services are great, and they help you make the 140 character cut off. But, they are dangerous as a consumer as you don't know where they are going. You could get Rick Rolled, or worse. This is why I wrote the Endpoint Resolver library, and the Greasemonkey script that flips the URLs to the full ones in your Twitter stream.

Check out http://almaer.com/endpoint for more details, and the full code is hosted at Google Code here: http://code.google.com/p/endpoint-resolver

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Science & Technology

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• twitter
• endpoint
• javascript
• ajax
• service
• library
• http
• redirect
• location
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