I just discovered a way to automatically shorten urls posted to Twitter:
Posted by mattruma at stackoverflow.com
public static string MakeTinyUrl(string url)
{
try
{
if (url.Length <= 30)
{
return url;
}
if (!url.ToLower().StartsWith("http") && !Url.ToLower().StartsWith("ftp"))
{
url = "http://" + url;
}
var request = WebRequest.Create("http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url=" + url);
var res = request.GetResponse();
string text;
using (var reader = new StreamReader(res.GetResponseStream()))
{
text = reader.ReadToEnd();
}
return text;
}
catch (Exception)
{
return url;
}
}