{"id":18533,"date":"2010-05-11T16:45:26","date_gmt":"2010-05-11T15:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.razorianfly.com\/?p=18533"},"modified":"2010-05-11T16:54:38","modified_gmt":"2010-05-11T15:54:38","slug":"razorianfly-branded-url-shortener-rfly-me-surpasses-half-a-million-clicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/11\/razorianfly-branded-url-shortener-rfly-me-surpasses-half-a-million-clicks\/","title":{"rendered":"RazorianFly Branded URL Shortener RFly.Me Surpasses Half A Million Clicks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;d like to take a minute to bask in a monumental moment of achievement with our sister site <a href=\"http:\/\/rfly.me\" target=\"_blank\">rfly.me<\/a>. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Created by myself (@razorianfly) and James (@HereIsJames) in May 2009, <a href=\"http:\/\/rfly.me\" target=\"_blank\">rfly.me<\/a> is the official URL shortening service of RazorianFly.com, and was the result of wanting something simple. Something usable. Something short and sweet. <\/p>\n<p>We figured we&#8217;d create a service which would allow anyone, anywhere the ability to shorten links across the web, for use with services like @Twitter and @Facebook, but never did we imagine we&#8217;d be writing this post today. What originally started out as a hobby, just got a hell of a lot bigger. All thanks to you guys.<\/p>\n<p><center><object width=\"540\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ezC7KQy8ecc&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ezC7KQy8ecc&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"540\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>On October 31st 2009, we announced rfly.me had surpassed 100,000 clicks and then stood at just under 10,000 URLs shortened. In December 2009 we announced we&#8217;d hit 10,000 URLs. At 10AM this morning, Tuesday May 11th 2010, the rfly.me database recorded our <a href=\"http:\/\/rfly.me\/blog\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>500,000th<\/strong> click through<\/a>. That&#8217;s half a million. It still sounds slightly weird saying it.<\/p>\n<p>As of writing this post, you have shortened a staggering <strong>71,905 URLs<\/strong> using rfly.me.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, without you guys we&#8217;d be nowhere, so we&#8217;d like to thank you, immensely. That means everyone who has shortened, everyone who has re-tweeted, every developer who has contacted us requesting our API for their iPhone or Mac projects. We\u2019d like to thank you all. <\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s more planned for rfly.me as a shortening service, more that&#8217;s perhaps even <em>shorter<\/em> &#8211; and we just can&#8217;t wait to show it you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;d like to take a minute to bask in a monumental moment of achievement with our sister site <a href=\"http:\/\/rfly.me\" target=\"_blank\">rfly.me<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[2612,85,2613,1735,3503,2616,1466,503,506,1654,2264,2615,2614],"class_list":["post-18533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-000-clicks","tag-85","tag-achievement","tag-announcement","tag-blog","tag-custom-urls","tag-official","tag-razorianfly","tag-razorianflycom","tag-rflyme","tag-service","tag-shortener","tag-url"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18533"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18541,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18533\/revisions\/18541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}