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How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague

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ThingFetcher update: The owners of ThingFetcher are now aware of the problem, and will try to fix it asap ( more information ). That means that doing HTTP requests is cheaper for the bot’s owner, but on the other hand that’s way more expensive for the content producer, and the URI shortening services involved as well.

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How to cleverly integrate your own URI shortener

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Better do that when you actually need this information, or run a cron job for this purpose. If you’re storing titles and such stuff grabbed from the destination page, don’t fetch the destination page on create. With the shortcut returned build the short URI on-the-fly $shortUri = getBaseUri()."/".$suriShortcut;

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