What do you do? Well, that one is probably safe, as it uses YouTube’s own URL shortener. But what about all those other shortened URLS you see in emails, on Twitter and everywhere else? They could ...

There’s been a flurry of news in the world of URL shortening of late. Google finally released its Goo.gl to the public, and not long after vb.ly was pulled for violating Islamic Sharia law. Not too ...

What’s the best URL shortener you can use? The answer for many of you was probably goo.gl for quite a long time now, but at the end of March this year Google announced its plans for shutting down ...

Ever wonder how The New York Times shortens its links on Twitter to “nyti.ms,” followed by some combo of letters and numbers? If not, maybe you should. In 2010 social media traffic to news sites ...

The rise of Twitter and other microblogging systems with constrained character counts has led to renewed interest in Web services that shorten URLs. Support for these services is often integrated into ...

Facebook offers several creative ways to shorten URLs, making them more user-friendly for web and email use. This fluidity between facebook.com and fb.com URLs simplifies access to user-created pages ...

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 ...

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 ...

When you post on Twitter, you only have 140 characters to say what you need to say -- every letter, number and space counts. If you're sharing a link to a website, a long URL leaves you little to no ...

When URL shorteners first made their appearance a decade ago, the idea behind them was to make sharing website links easier, especially as some URLs, otherwise known as Web addresses, were more than ...