We use URL shortening services so often these days we're seldom even aware of them. Until, that is, one of them fails. Today, one of the most popular of these, Bitly, stopped working for some users.

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Less than two weeks after closing its bulk link-shortening “bundles” ...

New York-based link shortening service Bitly just launched a major redesign that emphasizes link sharing similar to Twitter or the once-popular bookmark service Delicious. The old Bitly centered ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the collision of advertising and the Internet. Bitly is best known for providing a way to shorten Web hyperlinks so they ...

In this day and age, most of the links that we see on social media, and even in emails, are shortened links. And this is due to the character limits that we have on these platforms – with Twitter ...

Shortening an Internet address makes it easier to share important links with other members in your organization. Bitly is a Betaworks company owned by Bitly Incorporated, and it is the world's largest ...

The popular link-shortening service Bitly released some data about how long people engage with its links after they are first shared on social networks. The company’s “science team” calculated the ...