# Custom Twitter URL shortening and image uploading

**URL:** <https://cog.discourse.group/t/custom-twitter-url-shortening-and-image-uploading/488>\
**Category:** blog\
**Created:** [October 26, 2013, 9:42pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/custom-twitter-url-shortening-and-image-uploading/488 "2013-10-26T21:42:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![BigDinoBlog](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/bigdinoblog/32/417_2.png) [@BigDinoBlog](https://cog.discourse.group/u/BigDinoBlog)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2013, 9:42pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/custom-twitter-url-shortening-and-image-uploading/488/1 "2013-10-26T21:42:26Z")

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> I don’t know what normal people do on days off from work, but I do things that are too esoteric even to write about for Ars Technica because…because I think there’s something wrong with me. So, last Friday I spent a few hours setting up a vanity URL shortening service and custom image uploading service for Twitter, so I can, I don’t know, be cooler than everyone else. It was surprisingly fun!

[Read the rest of this blog entry…](http://ghost.bigdinosaur.org/custom-twitter-url-shortening-and-image-uploading/)

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**Author:** ![sig](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/sig/32/286_2.png) [@sig](https://cog.discourse.group/u/sig)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2013, 11:26pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/custom-twitter-url-shortening-and-image-uploading/488/2 "2013-10-26T23:26:48Z")

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I went to an American Red Cross first aid/CPR/AED course. Since coming home I have been listening to loud music and installing Windows XP in a virtual machine so I can do Army business without having to reboot from Linux Mint Debian. Not nearly as esoteric as a URL shortening service, but a pretty good day nonetheless.

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**Author:** ![Force10](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/force10/32/1550_2.png) [@Force10](https://cog.discourse.group/u/Force10)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2013, 3:41pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/custom-twitter-url-shortening-and-image-uploading/488/3 "2013-10-28T15:41:40Z")

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That sounds like the kind of thing I would have found fun 10 or even 5 years ago, Lee. Now I’m just too burnt out. ☹

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**Author:** ![dakboy](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/dakboy/32/68_2.png) [@dakboy](https://cog.discourse.group/u/dakboy)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2013, 5:17pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/custom-twitter-url-shortening-and-image-uploading/488/4 "2013-10-28T17:17:32Z")

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Many years ago, when I actually _had_ spare time but squandered it regularly, I had thoughts of writing my own URL-shortening “service” for my own use.

I might still do it someday, just for sh\*ts & grins.