Comments on: Pinterest Pulls Plug On Link Shorteners, Makes Exception For RewardStyle

By: Perfect Reject

Perfect Reject — Fri, 06 Mar 2015 18:10:12 +0000

In reply to Kira. Thank you! That would be a great work around. ~Nina

By: MizzJ

MizzJ — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 23:23:54 +0000

I’m glad that Pinterest is taking measures to keep it authentic! With all the hype about how “profitable” pinterest can be for brands, I’ve noticed a big increase in spammers, which is terrible as it drives away the real users and ruins it for everyone.

By: Rob Poitras

Rob Poitras — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 22:23:35 +0000

It looks like Skimlinks link shortener is working fine still.

I just pinned an affiliate link via the skimlinks service that goes to shopbop and didn’t give me the error like it does for other things.

http://pinterest.com/pin/278167714454901070/

By: Kira

Kira — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 05:32:30 +0000

I don’t use bit.ly on Pinterest but I know that a lot of bloggers use it as a tool to track clicks (I use it to track clicks on my ads), so I can see where it has its legitimate use. I would love to see Pinterest roll out some statistics tools for bloggers to manage pins from their blogs!

By: CamMi Pham

CamMi Pham — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 03:55:24 +0000

Thank you I didn’t know about it at all

By: Catherine

Catherine — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 02:19:11 +0000

Affected, not effected.

By: anne the SpyGirl

anne the SpyGirl — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 19:08:58 +0000

Personally, I found most of the bit.ly images were from spammers. The images were from other sources and had the original URLs stripped off.

It’s regretful that rewardStyle users were effected, but it looks like Pinterest remedied the situation in a timely manner.

By: Sheyla Concepcion

Sheyla Concepcion — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 18:47:46 +0000

I didn’t know about this. Thanks for informing us!