Since Twitter limits messages to 140 characters, users have quickly come to depend on “URL shorteners.” These free services take the long URLs for links that we find on the Web and shrink them to a ...

Web URLs can get really, really long and that, in turn, leads to all sorts of problems. The first problem is one of simple usability. URLs that are 50, 100, or even 200 characters in length will wrap ...

The options for shortening long URL’s to a more manageable length are quickly proliferating with both Google and Facebook getting into the link shortening game. The shortened URL’s are easier to send ...

Viral videos are a great way to market your business, and YouTube is the most widely used video-sharing service on the Web. If you have a large Twitter following, tweeting a link to your followers is ...

Twitter is continuing to add features to its service which have previously been served by third-party companies. The other day, Twitter announced their own photo sharing service, and now the company ...

Other benefits to having your own custom short URL are things like consistent branding and increased link trust – no one likes clicking on random links, so knowing it comes from a trusted source goes ...