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   I want to use my own Bit.ly account to shorten URLs so that I can track visitors etc. I'm using a PHP class to generate the bit.ly urls using my API key which ads them to my history.

   However I cannot then use these shortened URLs as the link for TweetMeme because it sees them as redirects.

   I figured that if I let TweetMeme generate the urls using bit.ly as a shortening service then the links generated would be the same and the tracking will still work on my bit.ly account. However when I generate the bit.ly link using my class it does not match the bit.ly link generated by the TweetMeme script, despite the fact that they are being fed the same long URL.

   Is TweetMeme adding something to the long URL before shortening ?

   How come these two links are different even though they have the same original link ?

   Is there some way to allow me to use my own Bit.ly account and still have the correct URL being send by TweetMeme.

   Cheers

   Posted 2 years ago by khendar
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   Hi,

   In the Javascript, set the variable:

   tweetmeme_alias = 'http://bit.ly/12345';

   To whatever your bit.ly short URL is, TweetMeme will use that instead, provided it's the first short URL we've seen for that story.

   Posted 2 years ago by Nick Telford

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