Name-shortening service bit.ly is Twitter's default service for scrunching long Web addresses into short ones that leave more room for text in users' tweets. Twitter switched from previous provider ...

Since early March, we have been routing links within Direct Messages through our link service to detect, intercept, and prevent the spread of malware, phishing, and other dangers. Any link shared in a ...

Bit.ly, my URL shortener of choice have kindly created a little Google gadget which makes it nice and easy to shorten URL’s you’re about to insert into a gmail email. This keeps your emails nice and ...

Bit.ly, the worlds most popular URL shortener announced a new service called Bit.ly pro in mid-December 2009. The service was designed to let bloggers set up custom URL shoreteners using Bit.ly’s well ...

But recently a friend introduced me to another service for this purpose, with essentially the same process as TinyUrl, but some added features. Both programs come with a field into which to paste a ...

URL shorteners have become ubiquitous on the web with the meteoric rise of Twitter, which constrains users to 140 characters. While URL shorteners are not new (TinyURL has been around since 2002), ...

URL shorteners are small but powerful tools in the world of digital communication. They take long and cumbersome URLs and transform them into concise, easy-to-share links. While they are popular for ...