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DeWitt Clinton:

More thoughts on URL shorteners. — What is a URL shortener? — You've all seen short URLs before — the links to tinyurl.com, bit.ly, wp.me, etc., recently popularized as a workaround to fit more content into smaller spaces, most notably within Twitter's 140 character limits.

Jun 14, 2010, 3:35 PM– In context

Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:

URL Shorteners Slow Down The Web - Especially Facebook's FB.me — It's hard to imagine a Web sans URL shortening services nowadays but you can rest assured that they're here to stay - for better or worse. Question is: how do the likes of bit.ly, TinyURL and Goo.gl score in terms of speed and availability?

Mar 17, 2010, 5:25 PM– In context

Royal Pingdom:

URL shortener speed and reliability shootout — With the rise of microblogging, URL shortening services have become extremely popular. And no wonder; just imagine sharing links on Twitter without one. Although some of these services have considerably more market share than others …

Aug 18, 2009, 5:50 PM– In context

Ryan Flores / TrendLabs:

Koobface Increases Twitter Activity — Just a few hours ago, Koobface has increased its Twitter activity, sending out tweets with different URL links pointing to Koobface malware. — This is in contrast with previous Koobface Twitter activity wherein only three TinyURLs pointing to Koobface were used.

Jul 10, 2009, 12:25 PM– In context

Jay Hathaway / Download Squad:

Greasemonkey script decodes an impressive list of TinyURLs — It's trendy to use the latest and greatest URL shortening services in IMs and Twitter postings, but clicking on a TinyURL is like a box of chocolates: you never know what you're gonna get. To avoid any nasty surprises …

Jun 14, 2009, 9:55 PM– In context

Eric Engleman / TechFlash:

Amazon creates its own URL shortener for products — Amazon.com has quietly created its own URL shortener for products sold on its sites. People can now type “amzn.com/” and a product number to create a short URL, without the need for sites like tinyurl.com and bit.ly.

May 8, 2009, 3:50 PM– In context

Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:

URL Shortening Wars: Twitter Ditches TinyURL For bit.ly — Sharing links on Twitter can be quite a pain when you need to input a web address that consumes most of the space you have at your disposal for your micro-message. The startup realized that quickly and automatically started shortening long URLs …

May 6, 2009, 12:25 PM– In context

Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:

It's Awe.sm: Create A Powerful Custom URL Shortener For Your Own Domain — You may have noticed over the last few weeks that TechCrunch links on Twitter have had a nifty custom URL, with links looking like tcrn.ch/1A' instead of more generic codes from TinyURL or Bit.ly.

May 4, 2009, 3:55 PM– In context

Jenna Wortham / New York Times:

Mini-Links to Web Sites Are Multiplying — If you have spent any time on the Internet in the last few months, chances are you have clicked on a shortened link Web address. — URL shorteners, which abbreviate unwieldy Web addresses into bite-size links, have been around for years.

May 4, 2009, 1:20 AM– In context

Jason Kottke / kottke.org:

URL shorteners suck — After threatening as much for many months, Joshua Schachter has published a piece about how URL shorteners (TinyURL, bit.ly, is.gd, etc.) suck for everyone except the companies which build URL shorteners. … I agree with Schachter all around here.

Apr 4, 2009, 4:25 AM– In context

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