Wednesday, June 27, 2007 by Dave Winer. Of course I'd like to do what Twitter does, and generate a Tinyurl in place of a longish URL for each TwitterGram. I had assumed all along that Twitter had a special deal with the TInyurl folks, but apparently not so. They have an open API that is simplicity itself. It's so simple it's almost hard to describe. Try clicking on this link: http://tinyurl.com/ap