It would indeed require a socket, I haven't looked at the use of sockets either.

Idiot proof scripts are the way of the future.

Strip and flood timer:

on *:TEXT:!tiny*:#: { 
if (%flood_protection_tiny != on) {
var %url $strip($2)
msg $chan Congratulations $nick $+ ! Your current url of %url has been shortened at http://tinyurl.com/create.php?source=indexpage&url= $+ %url $+ &submit=Make+TinyURL!&alias= Thank you for using the script! 
set %flood_protection_tiny on
timer 1 3 unset %flood_protection_tiny
}
else msg $chan Please do not spam this command!
}

Also, do you want the custom alias bit added? Not too hard...