Hasn't he been dead since 2011? So, whose hands are they actually putting that fate in is what you should be concerned since your boogeyman is no more dangerous than the Freddy Krueger.
According to wikipedia, bitly started in 2008 and was in fact twitter's default url shortener in 2009, at which point Gaddafi was very much still in charge.
I think that Twitter got the last laugh during the Arab Spring.