It's being rolled out to Direct Messages first, where much of the spamming occurs.Click to read the rest of this post... ...

If you’ve been active on Twitter over the last 24 hours, you may have noticed a few more Twt.li URL’s popping up. In case you’re unaware, Twt.li is Twitter’s own URL shortener and has been used sparingly to combat phishing attacks a...

Fresh off the acquisition of AppVee, social mobile app directory Appolicious is releasing a few new features including a Facebook App, an Appo.me URL Shortener for links to apps, and a Twicker ad model, which allows users to view...

// John Borthwick, CEO & Co-Founder, Betaworks Bit.ly- More Than A URL Shortener (6 min) Bit.ly allows users to shorten, share, and track links (URLs) Bit.ly usage mainly comes from Twitter, Facebook, and emails The commerci...

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As part of the marketing around the upcoming 2010 FIFA World Cup, the South African Tourism authority has launched a new branded url shortening service at http://mzan.si. Developed for the government agency by Quirk eMarketing, the ...

Fun, Internet, Web, Humor There are dozens of URL shortener available on the web like tr.im, bit.ly, and goo.gl, to name just a few. They all take long URLs and squeeze them into fewer characters to make a link that is...

Bit.ly recently unveiled a new service, Bit.ly Pro, which makes it very simple to host your own custom-branded short URL. The basic Bit.ly Pro service, which is in the free beta stage for now, allows you to set up a short domain and...

Utilities, Web services We've written before on Download Squad about Bit.ly's plans to offer a premium service, including custom URL shorteners like the ones they provide for sites like The New York Times. Well, Bit.ly ...

Bit.ly, the worlds most popular URL shortener announced a new service called Bit.ly pro in mid-December 2009. The service was designed to let bloggers set up custom URL shoreteners using Bit.ly’s well liked backend. That service ent...

Blogging, Freeware, Social Software The super-simply blog platform Posterous has just released a new feature on its post.ly domain, which was previously used only as a URL shortener. For those that are not familiar, Pos...

From TechCrunch: Everyone is getting into the URL shortening game these days. Google, YouTube, and Facebook are just a few joining the likes of the established players such as Bit.ly. And now Microsoft is jumping in. But there’s som...

From TechCrunch: Everyone is getting into the URL shortening game these days. Google, YouTube, and Facebook are just a few joining the likes of the established players such as Bit.ly. And now Microsoft is jumping in. But there’s som...

Everyone is getting into the URL shortening game these days. Google, YouTube, and Facebook are just a few joining the likes of the established players such as Bit.ly. And now Microsoft is jumping in. But there's something weird abou...

ScreenshotA new URL-shortening service called Binged.it has appeared on Twitter. Click to view Starting to surface on Twitter are tweets from Bing that say they're coming from a URL-shortening service called Binged.it. It seems Micr...

If you like the idea of a URL shortener powered by Google but you're not really sold on the idea of having to install the Google toolbar to get access to it, the Goo.gl Bookmarklet takes care of that problem. Like all bookmarklets, ...

Trying to see if Twitter Tools plugin can actually tweet the URL for this post. Update: Yep, it works, It seems like the Bit.ly url shortener plugin was not working.

Just a week after Google launched its URL shortener, Goo.gl, it’s premiering another one, this time for YouTube. And because we can’t stand to learn yet another URL shortener name, they’re going with youtu.be. To use the new shorten...

Internet, Social Software Hot on the heels of both Goo.gl and Fb.me, there's now a Youtu.be! Its sole purpose: shorter Youtube links. There isn't really a lot more to this one, other than a brief explanation of how the...

It's like saying, if Twitter, Facebook, Google and all the other sites can implement their own URL shorterner for sharing links why can't  YouTube have its own too? After all, YouTube videos are one of the most shared stuff on Faceb...