Friday, April 08, 2011

Gadhafi's Surprising.ly Internet Asset


In an ironic twist, it turns out that, whenever NATO, the U.S. Air Force, celebrities like Charlie Sheen, or just regular people, have been sending out links to their Twitter followers, they have been using a Libyan asset.

Many of the most popular free services for condensing links, such as bit.ly or owl.ly, are using domains owned by Libya.

Here is a link to the Wall Street Journal article about it:

http://finance.yahoo.com/banking-budgeting/article/112508/gadhafi-ly-web-suffix-libya-wsj

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