Transito.us is a Twitter-based service that adds some surprise and mystery to the links your friends are sharing with you. When you connect your Twitter account to Transito.us, you're provided with a permanent URL (transito.us/user_name) that has no permanent address. Instead, every time you click on your Transito.us URL, it will take to you one of the latest links your Twitter friends have posted. Your Transito.us URL will update as often as your friends share new links, making it something like a mystery box. Every time you open it, something new may be inside waiting to be discovered.

Twitter's rising popularity has given birth several dozen services centered around the sharing of content. They tend to focus on linking Twitter to other services or increasing efficiency in the content being shared. Twitter Times is one of the few and best examples of services interested in curating content being shared on Twitter. Rather than organizing a large amount of information, Twitter Times looks to reduce the amount of content presented to users to streamline their Twitter news feed. Transito.us takes this idea of curation a step further to raise user awareness about the amount of content being shared with them. Instead of having permanent addresses, every Transito.us URL is temporal - redirecting to a currently shared link each time the user accesses it.

Twitter's emphasis on real-time communication is noticeable in the single question it asks of users; "What's happening?" While this fixation on immediacy has proven useful during times of crisis (natural disasters, terrorist attacks), on a daily basis the amount of content generated can be overwhelming for active users. Twitter's website and 3rd-party clients do little to stem the rising tide of information threatening to drown users. Transito.us seeks to point out the issue of "oversharing" that real-time networks encourage and it's effect on the longevity of content and our attention spans.