WordPress launches WP.me shorturls for WordPress hosted blogs

The Automattic has announced the launch of wp.me shorturls for WordPress.com hosted blogs. According to Matt Mullenweg the wp.me shorturl is different from other services such as tiny.url or tr.im who had their 5 minutes of fame last week.

WP.me is the only two-letter .me domain in the world

Every blog and post on WordPress.com has a WP.me URL now

These are all exposed in the using rel=shortlink

It doesn’t work for any URL in the world, just WP.com-hosted ones

The links are permanent, they will work as long as WordPress.com is around

WP.me is spam-free, because we are constantly monitoring and removing spam from WP.com

Other than the restriction of only being available to WP.com users, WP.me sounds like pretty much any other shorturl service to me. Most bloggers will not care about the rel="shortlink" code in the header nor will most users bother thinking long term if their links will still work in a year. But all credits to the Automattic team to cover most angles for their users and keep adding services to their platform, making WP.com better and better on an almost daily base.

Franky Branckaute

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