Simpl.es - Shorten URLs for Twitter

Simpl.es is exactly what the URL announces it to be: a tool to make URLs simpler. For instance, you submit a mile-long URL, like the ones pointing to Google maps or PDF documents, that have loads of numbers and letters and codes, and the site translates it into a TinyURL, that is: a subdomain like Simpl.es/akjh. The idea empowering the site is that it should be used together with Twitter to post reasonably sized microblogging entries. In order to use this free service, you need to have a twitter account, to which the post, together with any comments to care to add to it, will be sent to. Now, there’s two ways to generate the new URL, one being to directly paste the long long URL into the dialogue box available at Simpl.es, and the second and most profitable, is to drag the Simpl.es link to your bookmarks toolbar, and whenever you come across a site that you want to twitter, you just push the button and get redirected to the Simpl.es site, where the new URL will be waiting for you, and that’s where you indicate your username and password, and exclaim: “Honey, I shrunk the URLs!”

“Simpl.es is a free service to make posting long URL's easier. We have a zero tolerance rule about using simpl.es for spamming or illegal purposes, and we reserve the right to remove any URL from our database without notice. This service is provided without warranty of any kind”.

Other than the obvious benefits of adapting URLs for microblogging, this service could be used for people who have to write academic papers and cite internet sources as references. Being able to type the reference you are submitting will allow people reading your printed material to automatically check your sources.

In this privacy-zealous age of ours, disclosing one’s password is a bit of a complicated matter, which might shoo away some users of the site, regardless of the fact that there is a notice in the site stating that no information on username and passwords is kept in the server. Twimbler.com has managed to make Twitter posts without having to provide this information; can the people at Simpl.es consider figuring out something similar?