Who won the twitter drag race between me @CoachGogo and @WholesalePlus?

When we started on Thursday,
WholesalePlus had 130 followers
CoachGogo (me) had 43 followers

When we ended midnight on Sunday (note: I’m 2 hours behind his time zone, even though I’m not calling it),
WholesalePlus had 179 followers
CoachGogo (me) had 170 followers

You can hear my thoughts on this brewing controversy here:

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If used tiny url and another one which I can’t remember right now for a while, but I recently signed up to Twitter (a 140-character or less micro-blogging service) and found that I’m having serious issues staying with the 140 character limit. Apparently I inherited my late father’s gift for..um…verbosity.

Anyway, after having swallowed up my nervousness (See: Why I was nervous about joining Twitter) and signing up for Twitter, I ran smack dab into this brevity issue and even tinyurl didn’t seem to be enough…

I needed every last character of space I could find to get most of my ideas out within one tweet (and regardless of what Twitter etiquette allows or doesn’t, certain character quirks won’t let me even attempt to divide my thoughts into 2 tweets – Is that even allowed in Twitterdom?)

Anyway, what I’m trying to get at is that I found this nifty url shortening website at http://is.gd (My question: How is that domain even possible? were the DNS guards asleep? Is that even legal?).

So now my twittering has an 8 character breathing space (tinyurl’s were mostly 25 characters) because the is.gd urls have been coming out at 17 characters…(ahhh the freedom)

Till next time.
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