Remember all the hoopla about Tr.im closing down their service? Well, they changed their mind.
We have restored tr.im, and re-opened its website. We have been absolutely overwhelmed by the popular response, and the countless public and private appeals I have received to keep tr.im alive.
We have answered those pleas. Nambu will keep tr.im operating going forward, indefinitely, while we continue to consider our options in regards to tr.im’s future.
They still want to sell, but they’re not shutting everything down as they had initially intended. (As @atomicpoet put it: “Seriously, can’t these guys even commit to the cause of quitting?”)
Tr.im still claims that the reason that they want to get out of the “URL shortening business” is that Twitter has stacked the deck against them.
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