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TinyPaste: It's like TinyURL for text, not URLs

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There are dozens of services that let you shorten long URLs so it's easier to copy and paste them into emails, instant messages, or micro-blogging services like Twitter. TinyPaste does basically the same thing -- but with chunks of text.

Here's how it works. Say you want to write a short book explaining in explicit detail everything you've done today. And you want to share it with all of your Twitter followers. Unfortunately Twitter has a 140 character limit. What do you do? You cheat by writing your diatribe into a TinyPaste text box and clicking submit. What you get is a short URL that you can paste into Twitter. Anyone who clicks will see the full text of your unreasonably long narrative.

Of course, you could also just write your story on a blog or other web site and use TinyURL or another service to shorten the URL. But what's the fun in using a full service blogging client with rich text formatting tools when you can use TinyPaste's plain text box?

In all seriousness, if you don't have a blog but want to share something with a bunch of people quickly, we can see how TinyPaste could come in handy. But it does seem a bit like a solution in search of a problem.

[via TechCrunch]
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