Anyone who downvoted me care to explain why?
I don't twitter (which appears to be the primary audience of bit.ly users) and my experience with url shorteners starts and ends with tinyurl (and all the abuses I encountered with that service).
What, specifically, was unworthy about my question and rational?
I downvoted you because... ugh, whining about something I don't care about. I don't care so why do you? It's not even important, it's not even the sort of thing there can be a definitive answer to, it's just preference on both sides so there wont be a resolution.
Besides, you're wrong ;), the shortened links are no real hindrance because you can tell by the context that they'll only go to a shop or a picture, there's no chance here that they'll be surprise shock sites, PDFs, etc, and unlikely they'll even be videos.
So stop cluttering up with your bikeshed colour whinging and post something about clothing fashion. Even if it's a short personal anecdote with which I can't identify and don't care about, that's still a better quality comment.
What, specifically, was unworthy about my question and rational?