URL shorteners spit out links that are easier to share. More importantly, they let small businesses track marketing campaigns and other incoming traffic. Here are four top URL shorteners that can help ...

Ever wonder how The New York Times shortens its links on Twitter to “nyti.ms,” followed by some combo of letters and numbers? If not, maybe you should. In 2010 social media traffic to news sites ...

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The rise of Twitter and other microblogging systems with constrained character counts has led to renewed interest in Web services that shorten URLs. Support for these services is often integrated into ...

Don't lose customers or potential clients with long URLs – when sent via email or instant message, such URL can be rendered unclickable by line breaks. Some social networks don't accept URL strings ...

There’s been a flurry of news in the world of URL shortening of late. Google finally released its Goo.gl to the public, and not long after vb.ly was pulled for violating Islamic Sharia law. Not too ...

In my “how to choose a URL shortener” article last year, I warned that the country domain that a shortener used might be an issue to consider. A year later, that’s even more so, as a Libyan .ly domain ...