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Thanks for the URL shorteners, looking at the rest of your site too. ... This is one great collection of URL shorteners! Thanks for blogging about this! =) ... I have tried many of the URL shorteners listed above, but I found them to be a little too long to use in Twitter. I now I use a new URL shortener, called TWTR.US.
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URL redirection - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
URL redirection , also called URL forwarding and the very similar technique domain redirection also called domain forwarding , are techniques on the World Wide Web for making a web page availab...
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So which clients provide support for which URL shorteners? The mega chart summarizes this above. Any service that’s a default in one or more clients is colored green for good. Red indicates they have no partnerships (or are losing their TweetDeck one).
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Do you wish it were easier to share web site addresses of your favorite YouTube videos, web site pages, or articles? ... Some disadvantages to using URL shorteners: the "new" web site address may diminish credibility. Some users may be less likely to click on the URL because they have no idea that will bring them an article...
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Two big tech names add their own URL shorteners as the leader rolls out more features. What's the rush – and the point? ... Custom URL shorteners like Bit.ly Pro answer the other major question – trustworthiness. Programs like Tweetdeck provide a preview feature so users can check the page they're about to visit...
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So there are clear benefits for both the service (low cost of entry, potentially easy profit) and the linker (the quick rush of popularity). But URL shorteners are bad for the rest of us.
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URL shortening services have come into vogue along with the Twitter’s rise because of its 140-character limit. Bit.ly, TinyURL, and others condense the links with shorter ones that are Twitter-friendly and then redirect to the original pages.
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There are a number of uses for URL shorteners, some less upstanding than others, but I had begun to wonder what drew people to those services that are the most popular. ... I think this post just became the directory for URL shorteners... and (due to some twittering) I gave this a thumbs up.
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URL shortener is useful to shorten an URL and make it easier to give away. For technology magazine editors, URL shortener is a compulsory tool for them to introduce ... [...] this is not a new feature for other URL shorteners, this new change would be another reason for people to stick with TinyURL. Custom alias is [...]
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