I’m a confessed Twitter-holic, but I do have one issue with the site. I love the 140 character limit, but I don’t like that you can’t make something a link. Instead, you have to use Tinyurl or a similar service. Now I trust the people I follow (well, except for one), but I want to have some sense of where the link I’m clicking is taking me.
I don’t want to get rickroll’d, and if I’m following a link at work, I’d really like to know where it’s taking me. So here’s my million-dollar idea: develop a service that shortens a URL, but still brings up the original URL in your browser’s status bar. I know, I know, it’s called a link, but you can’t do that on Twitter. To be fair, Tinyurl does offer a preview link, but there are a few problems. One, the link submitter has to use it, which most don’t; and two, it makes the url longer, which is contrary to the point of tinyurl, isn’t it?
Since I’m a wealthy member of the media elite, I release this idea onto the Internet. Unless someone figures out how to make money off of it, in which case I want a cut.