URL Shortening Services

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  • 1.
    bit.ly

    bit.ly

    bit.ly allows users to shorten, share, and track links (URLs). Reducing the URL length makes sharing easier - long links can break or consume extra characters in a short messaging ...

    chris_thomson
    Pros: Amazing real-time statistics, and demographics. Twitter seems to be starting to use it as its default URL shortener.
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    Is.gd

    Is.gd

    An even shorter domain name, for even shorter links.

    geekoo
    Pros: quite good. among the shortest URLs Cons: quite slow when compared to tinyurl
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    TinyURL

    TinyURL

    TinyURL is a web service that provides short aliases for redirection of long URLs. Kevin Gilbertson, a web developer, launched the service in January 2002 so that he would be ...

    chris_thomson
    Pros: It's by far the standard. Cons: URLs are generally much longer than those of other services ...
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    a.gd

    a.gd

    offers stats, Tagging, Link expiration, Password protection, Bulk Submission

    Twitter usage
    easy to handle your long URLs;
    easy to hide your affiliate links and "buy it now!" URLs;
    easy to ...

    somercamb
    Pros: buk submission Cons: slow, but effective
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    j.mp

    j.mp

    j.mp is a URL shortener that mirrors bit.ly.

    chris_thomson
    Pros: Really short URLs. Mirrors bit.ly, so it has an awesome API with great stats.
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    iTMS.me

    iTMS.me

    A simple url shortener for the iTunes Music Store

    dhs
    Pros: iTunes Music Store search, share links to Twitter, Facebook and wishli.st
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    ow.ly

    ow.ly

    from Hootsuite.

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    Snipurl

    Snipurl

    Take the ugly long URLs all over the web and snip them into a snipurl that is short, snippy, secure, memorable, and easy to share.

    prmack
    Pros: Great service quick and easy, automatic copy/paste function Cons: Resulting URL can be a little longer than other services, ...
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    Metamark

    Metamark

    Metamark is an extremely reliable shortening service (launched in 2003). Limited but reliable feature set. 1.6+ billion short links made longer.

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    R4D.US

    R4D.US

    R4D.us is a fully functional URL shortening service with full Stats reporting. Just add a "+" sign to the end of any shorted URL to see the stats for it ...

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