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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6-27-2008 @ 11:50AM
Robert H said...
I have been using pastebin to do this for a long time now. It allows you to do simple text like this, but is also useful for pasting code snippits with its built in highlighting and revisions.
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6-27-2008 @ 12:50PM
Jonathan Harford said...
This is great!
http://tinypaste.com/970f0
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6-27-2008 @ 12:51PM
Brad Linder said...
Ouch!
6-27-2008 @ 2:07PM
Rob said...
You win at the internet
7-09-2008 @ 7:31AM
jimmy said...
just wanna watch a movie
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