If you haven’t heard by now, TinyURL has gone down. The popular URL shortening service went down sometime in the night, and has yet to come back up yet. With so many services depending on the free TinyURL service, I am surprised that it has been down for so long.

Just a few points on why you shouldn’t trust a free service without making sure there are systems in place to deal with service outages.

Update: TinyURL is back up and running with no word excusing the outage.